Re: Fortuna

Jean-Luc Cooke
2005-04-14T00:27:11Z

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 05:09:39PM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 07:43:37PM -0400, Jean-Luc Cooke wrote:
> > Ahh. Thanks Herbert.
> >
> > Matt,
> >
> > Any insight on how to test syn cookies and the other network stuff in
> > random.c? My patch is attached, but I havn't tested that part yet.
>
> For starters, this is not against anything like a current random.c. A
> great number of cleanups have been done.

You caught me. :)

Last I proposed Fortuna for /dev/random it nearly got me drawn and quarterd.
So I've left it as a kenrel config option, leaving the current random.c
alone. I thought this was a way to make everyone happy.

JLC