netdev - Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE

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Date:	Fri, 16 May 2008 21:04:45 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
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
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of
 IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM

> > Piping network randomness into /dev/urandom is probably quite sensible
> > but not into /dev/random.
> 
> Well it isn't that things liks ssh and ssl and such don't need that
> level of security, but if there is no way to get it you have to go for
> the best you can get.

So open /dev/urandom in that case. It's a user space problem - this is
policy.

Alan
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