linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] CPU Jitter RNG: inclusion into kernel crypto API and /dev/random

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Date:	Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:58:49 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>,
	Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de>
CC:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	sandy harris <sandyinchina@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CPU Jitter RNG: inclusion into kernel crypto API and
 /dev/random

On 11/10/2013 09:21 AM, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> 
> Here you say it: we *assume*. And please bear in mind that we all know for a 
> fact that the theory behind quantum physics is not complete, because it does 
> not work together with the theory of relativity. That again is a hint that 
> there is NO proof that decay is really unpredictable.
> 

Honestly, if you want to be taken seriously, this is not the kind of
thing to put in your discussion.

	-hpa


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