Re: [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Fortuna PRNG in /dev/random

Scott Robert Ladd
2004-09-24T20:47:11Z

Jean-Luc Cooke wrote:
> If I submitted a patch that gave users the choice of swapping my Fortuna for
> the current /dev/random, would you be cool with that then?

I would certainly appreciate this option, given that my customers often
have very different ideas of what they need. I don't see how it hurts
the kernel to have a choice for /dev/random.

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