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: Benny Amorsen <hidden>
Date: 2008-05-16 20:35:21
Also in: lkml

Alan Cox [off-list ref] writes:
If they don't need that level of security they can use /dev/urandom.
Piping network randomness into /dev/urandom is probably quite sensible
but not into /dev/random.
Perhaps it would be possible to make most types of interrupts add
entropy, but not credit any entropy?


/Benny

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