Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 13:53:42 -0600
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@redhat.com>,
       Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
       Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Ray Lee <ray@madrabbit.org>,
       Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
       Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@zugschlus.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       hmh@debian.org
Subject: Re: entropy gathering (was Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?)
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On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:36:33PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> As an aside...
> 
> Speaking as the maintainer rng-tools, which is the home of the hardware 
> RNG entropy gathering daemon...
> 
> I wish somebody (not me) would take rngd and several other projects, and 
> combine them into a single actively maintained "entropy gathering" package.

I think we should re-evaluate having an internal path from the hwrngs
to /dev/[u]random, which will reduce the need for userspace config
that can go wrong.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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