From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262433AbTJXRyb (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:54:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262440AbTJXRyb (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:54:31 -0400 Received: from thunk.org ([140.239.227.29]:36225 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262433AbTJXRya (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:54:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:54:13 -0400 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: bill davidsen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] frandom - fast random generator module Message-ID: <20031024175413.GA733@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Ts'o , bill davidsen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <3F8E552B.3010507@users.sf.net> <20031022025602.GH17713@pegasys.ws> <20031022122251.A3921@borg.org> <3F97498D.9050704@storm.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 05:37:44PM +0000, bill davidsen wrote: > > No argument, but the performance of urandom is quite poor in terms of > speed and having every application generate their own number using > their own possibly badly flawed algorithm certainly qualifies as > undesirable. That's what shared libraries are for.... - Ted