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Jeff Garzik wrote:

> 
> Even if you think you have a good true source of random noise, you need
> to run good fitness tests on the data to ensure it's truly random.
> 


The i810 user-space code already should do this, though, right?  Could one
simply point the existing rngd at /dev/dsp instead?

	-hpa


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