Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
From: Glen Turner <hidden>
Date: 2008-05-25 15:02:49
Also in:
lkml
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 22:34 +0200, Benny Amorsen wrote:
Perhaps it would be possible to make most types of interrupts add entropy, but not credit any entropy?
You need to be certain that those sources are not able to be influenced by a hostile party, otherwise the entropy pool can be degraded to be less random over successive samples than its entropy score suggests. Interrupts do not meet that test.