From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:19:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:19:22 -0400 Received: from ultra.sonic.net ([208.201.224.22]:38513 "EHLO ultra.sonic.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:19:07 -0400 X-envelope-info: Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 15:19:13 -0700 From: Mike Castle To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alex Bligh - linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] let Net Devices feed Entropy, updated (1/2) Message-ID: <20010819151913.G30309@thune.mrc-home.com> Reply-To: Mike Castle Mail-Followup-To: Mike Castle , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alex Bligh - linux-kernel Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <477033435.998258297@[169.254.45.213]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:58:17PM +0100, Alex Bligh - linux-kernel wrote: > This is not the issue; some of use _are_ worried whether or not we > have enough entropy (and want a read that blocks until sufficient If you are that worried, shouldn't you be using a hardware generator? mrc -- Mike Castle dalgoda@ix.netcom.com www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc