From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755004AbbIXNMo (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2015 09:12:44 -0400 Received: from imap.thunk.org ([74.207.234.97]:40601 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753361AbbIXNMm (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2015 09:12:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 09:12:35 -0400 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: Austin S Hemmelgarn Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Make /dev/urandom scalable Message-ID: <20150924131235.GB6841@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Ts'o , Austin S Hemmelgarn , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, Andi Kleen References: <1442963767-14945-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <5603004A.20801@gmail.com> <20150923232841.GK1747@two.firstfloor.org> <5603E083.8020004@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5603E083.8020004@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on imap.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 07:37:39AM -0400, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > Using /dev/urandom directly, yes that doesn't make sense because it > consistent returns non-uniformly random numbers when used to generate larger > amounts of entropy than the blocking pool can source Why do you think this is the case? Reproduction, please? - Ted