Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967492AbWLAPbo (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:31:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S967420AbWLAPbo (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:31:44 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:36587 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967359AbWLAPbn (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:31:43 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 15:37:06 +0000 From: Alan To: Jan Glauber Cc: linux-crypto , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Pseudo-random number generator Message-ID: <20061201153706.321926f5@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1164986446.5882.36.camel@bender> References: <1164979155.5882.23.camel@bender> <20061201133924.023289c4@localhost.localdomain> <1164986446.5882.36.camel@bender> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 530 Lines: 13 On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:20:46 +0100 Jan Glauber wrote: > Yes, a user can just symlink urandom to prandom and will have a faster > generator. More usefully they can use it as an entropy source with an entropy daemon to feed it into the standard urandom/random. - 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/