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Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 12:12:37 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
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Subject: Re: Continuing /dev/random problems with 2.4
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Andreas Dilger wrote:

> 
> Maybe, i8XX hardware RNG should feed the /dev/random entropy pool
> directly if you enable the chipset support (with an option to turn
> it off if you want to use the user-space tools or a separate RNG),
> so that people get the benefits of the h/w RNG without having to
> install another tool (which they won't know about)?
> 


"Let's put it in the kernel because people are too stupid to install it
otherwise"?

No thank you.

	-hpa


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