Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754987AbYJOMJU (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:09:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752671AbYJOMJH (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:09:07 -0400 Received: from mail-in-14.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.54]:50668 "EHLO mail-in-14.arcor-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751851AbYJOMJG (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:09:06 -0400 From: Bodo Eggert Subject: Fwd: Re: Perfectly Random To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Glenn Powers Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:20:03 +0200 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: arcoristkaputtundbrauchtdiesentext.7eggert@nurfuerspam.de Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 587 Lines: 8 Glenn Powers wrote: > This is a proposal for a linux kernel module. This module will transfer > entropy to /dev/random from nuclear decay random number generators. Transfering randomness to /dev/random should usually be done in userspace. This allows more complex analysis (like: Is the generator working correctly?). -- 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/