From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Peter Monta <pmonta@pmonta.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Continuing /dev/random problems with 2.4
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 12:27:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C5AFA22.1020208@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020201031744.A32127@asooo.flowerfire.com> <1012582401.813.1.camel@phantasy> <a3enf3$93p$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <20020201202334.72F921C5@www.pmonta.com>
Peter Monta wrote:
>>Anything that is meant to be a server really pretty much needs an
>>enthropy generator these days.
>>
>
> Many motherboards have on-board sound. Why not turn the mic
> gain all the way up and use the noise---surely there will be
> a few bits' worth?
>
> Perhaps there ought to be a way to give bits to the kernel's
> /dev/random input hopper from user space.
>
There already is. If I'm not completely mistaken, just write the raw data
to /dev/random, then there is an ioctl() saying "add N bits to the
entrophy counter."
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-01 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-01 9:17 Continuing /dev/random problems with 2.4 Ken Brownfield
2002-02-01 16:36 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-01 17:00 ` Ken Brownfield
2002-02-01 16:53 ` Robert Love
2002-02-01 17:01 ` Ken Brownfield
2002-02-04 9:28 ` Sean Hunter
2002-02-01 18:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-01 19:38 ` Ken Brownfield
2002-02-01 19:50 ` Robert Love
2002-02-01 19:52 ` Ken Brownfield
2002-02-01 19:57 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-01 20:22 ` Ken Brownfield
2002-02-01 19:43 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-01 20:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-01 20:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-02 1:33 ` David Wagner
2002-02-02 8:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-02 8:54 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-02-02 11:13 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-04 22:13 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-02-04 22:37 ` Roland Dreier
2002-02-04 22:45 ` Robert Love
2002-02-05 23:02 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-02-05 23:17 ` Robert Love
2002-02-06 16:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-02-06 16:31 ` Need a clew WRT fig2dev Kirk Reiser
2002-02-06 16:42 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-02-06 20:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-09 19:45 ` Continuing /dev/random problems with 2.4 Nix N. Nix
2002-02-03 12:51 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-02-01 20:23 ` Peter Monta
2002-02-01 20:27 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-02-01 20:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 20:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 20:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-01 20:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 20:56 ` Peter Monta
2002-02-01 22:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-01 23:27 ` Peter Monta
2002-02-02 1:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-02 2:05 ` David Wagner
2002-02-02 3:30 ` Peter Monta
2002-02-02 21:02 ` Martin Dalecki
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2002-02-04 21:53 Ishan O. Jayawardena
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