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Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:44:27 -0500
From: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>
To: dean gaudet <dean-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org>
Cc: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] (0/4) Entropy accounting fixes
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On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 09:06:08PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote:
> 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?

Many southbridges (like Intel 8x0) come with a real RNG. 

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