Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:56:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:56:01 -0500 Received: from panic.ohr.gatech.edu ([130.207.47.194]:47527 "HELO gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:54:54 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:54:51 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Peter Monta , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Continuing /dev/random problems with 2.4 Message-ID: <20020201155451.A4843@havoc.gtf.org> In-Reply-To: <20020201031744.A32127@asooo.flowerfire.com> <1012582401.813.1.camel@phantasy> <20020201202334.72F921C5@www.pmonta.com> <20020201153346.B2497@havoc.gtf.org> <3C5AFD4B.4010803@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C5AFD4B.4010803@zytor.com>; from hpa@zytor.com on Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:40:43PM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:40:43PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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? Theoretically yes. rngd is tuned right now for i810's byte-at-a-time device, but it would be simple to make the code more generic, or simply use a faster device in a slower byte-at-a-time mode. Jeff - 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/