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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: disable RNG by default
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2016 11:56:08 +0200
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Am Dienstag, 9. August 2016, 17:46:56 CEST schrieb Herbert Xu:

Hi Herbert,
> 
> You're supposed to tweak the quality of the input.  In any case,

How is that tweak supposed to happen? The rngd does not allow changing the 
amount of read data relative to the assumed entropy.

> this is not affected by whether we whiten the result.

I understand that.

Ciao
Stephan