From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 13:33:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 13:33:17 -0400 Received: from abraham.CS.Berkeley.EDU ([128.32.37.121]:52745 "EHLO paip.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 13:33:07 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Newsgroups: isaac.lists.linux-kernel Subject: Re: /dev/random in 2.4.6 Date: 19 Aug 2001 17:29:55 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: isaac Message-ID: <9lot2j$pmg$2@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <200108151713.f7FHDg0n013420@webber.adilger.int> <20010816131112.V31114@turbolinux.com> <998009344.664.72.camel@phantasy> NNTP-Posting-Host: mozart.cs.berkeley.edu X-Trace: abraham.cs.berkeley.edu 998242195 26320 128.32.45.153 (19 Aug 2001 17:29:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Aug 2001 17:29:55 GMT X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test74 (May 26, 2000) Originator: daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Robert Love wrote: >I put together a patch that addresses this, it allows the user to >configure whether or not network devices contribute to the entropy pool. Be careful. Probably the right thing to do is to have network devices contribute to the entropy pool but not to the entropy count. If you implement this policy, and use /dev/urandom, you essentially get the best of both worlds, as far as I can see.