From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:20:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706261620.33898.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070626140624.GC30655@khazad-dum.debian.net>
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 16:06:25 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Which, AFAIK, we can quantify as the minimum expected entropy in the output.
The category is _not_ a measure of the entropy in the output.
It is _just_ to get the chance to get a sane _default_ policy
for which RNG is enabled by default, in the kernel.
It's just about a default policy. _Nothing_ else.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-26 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-24 13:55 [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories Michael Buesch
2007-06-24 14:30 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-06-24 14:43 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-25 23:21 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-26 13:56 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-26 3:13 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-26 14:06 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-26 14:20 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-06-27 2:00 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-27 12:58 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-27 16:40 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-27 17:56 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-28 7:57 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-26 14:12 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-26 14:32 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-26 14:45 ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-27 3:18 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-27 12:52 ` Michael Buesch
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