Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 23:39:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 23:39:32 -0400 Received: from abraham.CS.Berkeley.EDU ([128.32.37.170]:49932 "EHLO mx2.cypherpunks.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 23:39:32 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Newsgroups: isaac.lists.linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] (0/4) Entropy accounting fixes Date: 22 Aug 2002 03:27:16 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: isaac Message-ID: References:

NNTP-Posting-Host: mozart.cs.berkeley.edu X-Trace: abraham.cs.berkeley.edu 1029986836 14197 128.32.153.211 (22 Aug 2002 03:27:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Aug 2002 03:27:16 GMT X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test74 (May 26, 2000) Originator: daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 770 Lines: 10 Linus Torvalds wrote: >There are _real_ reasons why a firewall box (ie one >that probably comes with a flash memory disk, and runs a small web-server >for configuration) would want to have strong random numbers (exactly for >things like generating host keys when asked to by the sysadmin), yet you >seem to say that such a user would have to use /dev/urandom. Such users should be using /dev/urandom anyway. Most apps I've seen that use /dev/random do so out of confusion, not because /dev/random is the right thing to use. - 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/