From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:34:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:33:40 -0400 Received: from maynard.mail.mindspring.net ([207.69.200.243]:21793 "EHLO maynard.mail.mindspring.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:33:35 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] let Net Devices feed Entropy, updated (1/2) From: Robert Love To: Theodore Tso Cc: Martin Dalecki , Alex Bligh - linux-kernel , Johan Adolfsson , Oliver Xymoron , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riel@conectiva.com.br In-Reply-To: <20010820211107.A20957@thunk.org> In-Reply-To: <3B80EADC.234B39F0@evision-ventures.com> <2248596630.998319423@[10.132.112.53]> <3B811DD6.9648BE0E@evision-ventures.com> <20010820211107.A20957@thunk.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.12.99+cvs.2001.08.20.07.08 (Preview Release) Date: 21 Aug 2001 00:33:30 -0400 Message-Id: <998368415.3120.11.camel@phantasy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2001-08-20 at 21:11, Theodore Tso wrote: > A number of other people helped me with the design and development of > the /dev/random driver, including one of the primary authors of the > random number generation routines in PGP 2.x and 5.0. Most folks feel > that it does a good job. It does :) Thank you for adding to this thread. I want your opinion: as the author of /dev/random, its your turf. What do you think of the patch? It has been posted for various kernel versions, the newest patches are at http://tech9.net/rml/linux Obviously there is a theoretical risk, that is why it is configurable. Is the need or the practical risk sufficient that the patch is useful? I have gotten a lot of positive feedback. If the patch were to be merged into the kernel, would you like anything changed? Would a /proc interface be useful (this would add overhead, right now there is zero extra code after compile)? What about changing the entropy estimate to reflect the possible less entropy from net devices? Personally, I like the patch as is, but these have been issues raised. -- Robert M. Love rml at ufl.edu rml at tech9.net