From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 13:27:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 13:27:34 -0400 Received: from barbados.bluemug.com ([63.195.182.101]:10514 "EHLO barbados.bluemug.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 13:27:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:27:40 -0700 To: Robert Love Cc: Oliver Xymoron , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riel@conectiva.com.br Subject: Re: [PATCH] let Net Devices feed Entropy, updated (1/2) Message-ID: <20010822102740.D27313@bluemug.com> Mail-Followup-To: Robert Love , Oliver Xymoron , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riel@conectiva.com.br In-Reply-To: <998193404.653.12.camel@phantasy> <20010821231002.C27313@bluemug.com> <998461609.5166.10.camel@phantasy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <998461609.5166.10.camel@phantasy> X-PGP-ID: 5C09BB33 X-PGP-Fingerprint: C518 67A5 F5C5 C784 A196 B480 5C97 3BBD 5C09 BB33 From: Mike Touloumtzis Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:26:36AM -0400, Robert Love wrote: > > The solution to this is easy: get something to generate entropy (like my > netdev patch! :) and save/restore the entropy seed. Agreed, I don't think the netdev patch is a bad idea, and it's helpful in the case I described. I was just getting worried about the assertions (from various directions) that /dev/random and /dev/urandom are practically indistinguishable unless you can break SHA-1. There's enough confusion out there as it is :-). miket