Re: Problem with random.c and PPC

H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-16T01:47:04Z

Followup to: <20020815210449.GA26993@opus.bloom.county>
By author: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Ah, thanks. In that case, no. It doesn't look like the input-layer USB
> keyboards contribute to entropy (but mice do), and I don't think the ADB
> ones do. I'll take a crack at adding this to keyboards monday maybe.
>

Be careful... USB devices are *always* going to speak at the same
place in the USB cycle... I believe that is 1 ms. Thus,
submillisecond resolution is *not* random.

-hpa

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