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Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 21:06:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: dean gaudet <dean-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
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On 17 Aug 2002, Robert Love wrote:

> [1] this is why I wrote my netdev-random patches.  some machines just
>     have to take the entropy from the network card... there is nothing
>     else.

many southbridges come with audio these days ... isn't it possible to get
randomness off the adc even without anything connected to it?

-dean

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