From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Eli Billauer <eli_billauer@users.sf.net>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC] frandom - fast random generator module
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:07:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F8F24CE.3030505@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F8F23BE.7020703@users.sf.net>
Eli Billauer wrote:
> If a hardware device driver is buggy, you usually know about it sooner
> or later. If an RNG has a rare bug, or an architecture-dependent flaw,
> it's much harder to notice. If the RNG starts to repeat itself, you
> won't know about it, unless you happened to test exactly that data. The
> algorithm may be perfect, but a silly bug can blow it all.
rngd tests for this :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-16 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-16 8:22 [RFC] frandom - fast random generator module Eli Billauer
2003-10-16 8:36 ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-16 10:20 ` Eli Billauer
2003-10-16 10:48 ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-16 11:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-16 12:27 ` Eli Billauer
2003-10-16 15:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-16 16:20 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-10-16 16:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-16 18:18 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-10-16 18:52 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-10-16 19:31 ` Matt Mackall
2003-10-16 20:40 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-10-16 21:03 ` David Wagner
2003-10-16 23:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-16 23:42 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-10-17 0:34 ` David Wagner
2003-10-16 17:45 ` Matt Mackall
2003-10-16 18:38 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-10-16 19:08 ` Matt Mackall
2003-10-16 20:27 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-10-16 20:37 ` Matt Mackall
2003-10-16 17:31 ` Matt Mackall
2003-10-16 23:03 ` Eli Billauer
2003-10-16 23:07 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-10-16 23:13 ` Matt Mackall
2003-10-16 23:35 ` jw schultz
2003-10-21 19:24 ` bill davidsen
2003-10-21 19:55 ` bill davidsen
2003-10-21 21:21 ` Helge Hafting
2003-10-21 22:18 ` bill davidsen
2003-10-22 1:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-10-21 19:17 ` bill davidsen
2003-10-21 21:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-10-21 22:08 ` bill davidsen
2003-10-22 1:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-10-22 2:56 ` jw schultz
2003-10-22 16:22 ` Kent Borg
2003-10-23 2:46 ` Dale Farnsworth
2003-10-23 3:22 ` Sandy Harris
2003-10-23 14:15 ` Kent Borg
2003-10-24 17:37 ` bill davidsen
2003-10-24 17:54 ` Theodore Ts'o
2003-10-24 20:59 ` David Wagner
2003-10-24 21:33 ` jw schultz
2003-10-22 3:49 ` Sandy Harris
2003-10-16 10:45 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-10-21 19:30 ` bill davidsen
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[not found] ` <Hdyv.2Vd.13@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <HeE6.4Cc.1@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <HjaT.3nN.7@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <Hjkw.3Al.11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-10-16 17:46 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2003-10-16 19:28 ` Eli Billauer
2003-10-16 20:42 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-10-21 19:46 ` bill davidsen
2003-10-16 21:30 ` Matt Mackall
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