linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] Pseudo-random number generator

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Message-Id: <E1GqCFx-0006X8-IO@be1.lrz>
Date:	Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:33:01 +0100
From:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
To:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@...ibm.com>,
	linux-crypto <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Pseudo-random number generator

Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:20:46 +0100
> Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@...ibm.com> wrote:

>> Yes, a user can just symlink urandom to prandom and will have a faster
>> generator.
> 
> 
> More usefully they can use it as an entropy source with an entropy
> daemon to feed it into the standard urandom/random.

Only if other users will randomly drain /dev/prandom, otherwise you might
as well use /dev/zero.
-- 
Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF
verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.

http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html
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