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Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:04:32 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> To: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com> CC: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@...hat.com>, Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Ray Lee <ray@...rabbit.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@...schlus.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hmh@...ian.org Subject: Re: entropy gathering (was Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?) Matt Mackall wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:36:33PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> As an aside... >> >> Speaking as the maintainer rng-tools, which is the home of the hardware >> RNG entropy gathering daemon... >> >> I wish somebody (not me) would take rngd and several other projects, and >> combine them into a single actively maintained "entropy gathering" package. > > I think we should re-evaluate having an internal path from the hwrngs > to /dev/[u]random, which will reduce the need for userspace config > that can go wrong. That's a bit of a tangent on a tangent. :) Most people don't have a hardware RNG. But as long as there are adequate safeguards against common hardware failures (read: FIPS testing inside the kernel), go for it. Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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