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Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 22:08:29 +0200 From: "Gilles Espinasse" <g.esp@...e.fr> To: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca> Cc: "Jeff Garzik" <jeff@...zik.org>; "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>; "Rick Jones" <rick.jones2@...com>; "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>; "Chris Peterson" <cpeterso@...terso.com>; <netdev@...r.kernel.org>; <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 5:10 PM Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM > > receives no input. While ethernet might not be preferable if you have > > something else, sometimes you really don't have anything else. > > Ethernet is observable so ethernet isn't entropy. There is no "anything > else" here -> there is no *anything* > -- That's funny It does look to disturb some kernel developper that ethernet may be sniffed to feed a RNG even that could be very hard to reach any effective result in the case of a machine splitting different network segments. In the same time, it does not disturb openssl developpers to include non initialised memory that may or may not be predictable to feed a RNG. http://marc.info/?l=openssl-dev&m=121095151003011&w=2 Gilles -- 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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