From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263280AbTJPXIW (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:08:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263281AbTJPXIV (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:08:21 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:63445 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263280AbTJPXIT (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:08:19 -0400 Message-ID: <3F8F24CE.3030505@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:07:58 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Billauer CC: Matt Mackall , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [RFC] frandom - fast random generator module References: <3F8E552B.3010507@users.sf.net> <3F8E58A9.20005@cyberone.com.au> <3F8E70E0.7070000@users.sf.net> <3F8E8101.70009@pobox.com> <20031016173135.GL5725@waste.org> <3F8F23BE.7020703@users.sf.net> In-Reply-To: <3F8F23BE.7020703@users.sf.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Eli Billauer wrote: > If a hardware device driver is buggy, you usually know about it sooner > or later. If an RNG has a rare bug, or an architecture-dependent flaw, > it's much harder to notice. If the RNG starts to repeat itself, you > won't know about it, unless you happened to test exactly that data. The > algorithm may be perfect, but a silly bug can blow it all. rngd tests for this :)