Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751179AbWEPO7A (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 10:59:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751183AbWEPO7A (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 10:59:00 -0400 Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:12479 "EHLO bu3sch.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751179AbWEPO67 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 10:58:59 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Kyle Moffett , Johannes Berg Subject: Re: /dev/random on Linux Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 16:58:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060515213956.31627.qmail@web31508.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060516025003.GC18645@rhun.haifa.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Cc: Alan Cox , Jonathan Day , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Zvika Gutterman , Muli Ben-Yehuda MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605161658.33855.mb@bu3sch.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 848 Lines: 17 On Tuesday 16 May 2006 10:15, you wrote: > >> I would dismiss 2.2 for the cases of things like Knoppix because > >> CDs introduce significant randomness because each time you boot > >> the CD is subtly differently positioned. The OpenWRT case seems > >> more credible. I think most (all?) of the machines, OpenWRT runs on, are running a bcm43xx wireless chip. This chip has a hardware random number generator. patches to utilize it recently went into -mm. But I must admit, we don't know how it generates random numbers. But someone did some RNG tests on it in the past (I think it was Johannes). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/