Jeff Garzik wrote:

Alan Cox wrote:

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In short, I agree with Alan's IRQF_SAMPLE_DUBIOUS, and know of Linux
customers who also want the same.

They should be made to read the Debian ssh security report - three times
and understand the same would apply to them if something did cause their
network packet arrivals to be observed or non-random

Far better would be to get your CPU guys to put an RNG back into the
systems or on the CPU die ala VIA. Given I've even seen people using VIA
boxes as a random number feeder (streaming random numbers over SSL) there
is clearly a demand 8)

The Treacherous Platform Module includes an RNG.

Someone (hi Jesse?) should implement support for TPM_GetRandom.

Sounds like something he should neither use in the e1000 driver nor implement :)

This would be an interesting thing to the generic rng support in linux though

Auke