Thread (68 messages) 68 messages, 19 authors, 2008-05-30

Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM

From: Alan Cox <hidden>
Date: 2008-05-16 20:16:51
Also in: lkml

quoted
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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