From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
Cc: Steve Hill <steve@navaho.co.uk>,
"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /dev/random in 2.4.6
Date: 16 Aug 2001 20:49:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <998009344.664.72.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010816131112.V31114@turbolinux.com>
In-Reply-To: <200108151713.f7FHDg0n013420@webber.adilger.int> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0108160934340.2107-100000@sorbus.navaho> <20010816131112.V31114@turbolinux.com>
On 16 Aug 2001 13:11:12 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> That said, there are still cases where network traffic _has_ to be enough
> for /dev/random, given that some firewalls (e.g. LRP) can run from only
> ramdisk, so have no other source of entropy than the network traffic.
I put together a patch that addresses this, it allows the user to
configure whether or not network devices contribute to the entropy pool.
more information can be found
--
Robert M. Love
rml at ufl.edu
rml at tech9.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-17 0:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-15 15:07 /dev/random in 2.4.6 Steve Hill
2001-08-15 15:21 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-08-15 15:27 ` Steve Hill
2001-08-15 15:42 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-08-15 16:29 ` Tim Walberg
2001-08-15 17:13 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-08-16 8:37 ` Steve Hill
2001-08-16 19:11 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-08-16 19:35 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-16 20:30 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-08-17 0:49 ` Robert Love [this message]
2001-08-17 1:05 ` Robert Love
2001-08-19 17:29 ` David Wagner
2001-08-17 21:18 ` Theodore Tso
2001-08-17 22:05 ` David Schwartz
2001-08-19 15:13 ` Theodore Tso
2001-08-19 15:33 ` Rob Radez
2001-08-19 17:32 ` David Wagner
2001-08-19 23:32 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-08-20 7:40 ` Helge Hafting
2001-08-20 14:01 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-08-20 13:37 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-20 14:12 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-08-20 14:40 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-20 14:55 ` Chris Friesen
2001-08-20 15:22 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-08-20 15:25 ` Doug McNaught
2001-08-20 15:42 ` Chris Friesen
2001-08-21 10:03 ` Steve Hill
2001-08-21 18:14 ` David Wagner
2001-08-20 16:01 ` David Wagner
2001-08-20 19:30 ` Gérard Roudier
2001-08-20 15:07 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-08-21 8:33 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-21 16:13 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-08-21 17:44 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-21 18:24 ` David Wagner
2001-08-21 18:49 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-21 19:04 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-08-21 19:20 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-21 21:44 ` Robert Love
2001-08-21 18:19 ` David Wagner
2001-08-20 16:00 ` David Wagner
2001-08-21 1:20 ` Theodore Tso
2001-08-21 8:39 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-21 10:46 ` Marco Colombo
2001-08-21 12:40 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-21 17:06 ` cfs+linux-kernel
2001-08-21 17:48 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-21 18:27 ` David Wagner
2001-08-21 18:25 ` David Wagner
2001-08-20 22:55 ` D. Stimits
2001-08-21 1:06 ` David Schwartz
2001-08-19 17:31 ` David Wagner
2001-08-19 17:27 ` David Wagner
2001-08-15 19:25 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-15 20:55 ` Robert Love
2001-08-15 21:27 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-16 8:55 ` Steve Hill
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