linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories

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Message-Id: <200706261620.33898.mb@bu3sch.de>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:20:33 +0200
From:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories

On Tuesday 26 June 2007 16:06:25 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Which, AFAIK, we can quantify as the minimum expected entropy in the output.

The category is _not_ a measure of the entropy in the output.
It is _just_ to get the chance to get a sane _default_ policy
for which RNG is enabled by default, in the kernel.
It's just about a default policy. _Nothing_ else.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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