Re: USB HID devices not linked to RNG

Am Montag, 7. September 2015, 15:07:47 schrieb Mike Mestnik:

Hi Mike,

This is just an off the wall guess.  Wouldn't such entropy already be
collected at a lower level, like raw usb traffic?

The RNG collects data from interrupts (that also covers normal PS/2 mice and 
keyboards), block devices and HID (it hooks itself into the input layer).

So, raw USB traffic is not a source of entropy other than for the interrupts 
the base PCI traffic would generate.

What I am wondering: isn't the USB mouse/keyboard support hooking into the 
kernel's input layer?

Ciao
Stephan