From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To: "Paul Jakma" <paul@clubi.ie>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] let Net Devices feed Entropy, updated (1/2)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:16:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <NOEJJDACGOHCKNCOGFOMAEGBDFAA.davids@webmaster.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108210353320.7402-100000@fogarty.jakma.org>
> related: the i810 RNG has a driver, but it feeds data to /dev/random
> via a userspace daemon (rngd), so again entropy count is not changed.
>
> kind of shame on the only mass-market RNG hardware out there.
Just tweak the daemon to update the entropy count correctly using the
appropriate ioctl function (RND_ADD_ENTROPY). Search drivers/chars/random.c
for random_ioctl. I've written several programs that acquire entropy from
various sources and exchange them with the kernel entropy pool. It's not
difficult at all.
DS
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2001-08-21 2:14 ` [PATCH] let Net Devices feed Entropy, updated (1/2) Andi Kleen
2001-08-21 3:02 ` Paul Jakma
2001-08-21 3:12 ` Andi Kleen
2001-08-21 3:16 ` David Schwartz [this message]
2001-08-21 13:34 ` Paul Jakma
2001-08-21 18:38 ` David Wagner
2001-08-16 17:02 [PATCH] Optionally let Net Devices feed Entropy Francois Romieu
2001-08-16 19:28 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-16 20:19 ` D. Stimits
2001-08-17 0:47 ` Robert Love
2001-08-17 22:56 ` D. Stimits
2001-08-18 5:57 ` Robert Love
2001-08-18 17:44 ` [PATCH] let Net Devices feed Entropy, updated (1/2) Robert Love
2001-08-18 23:41 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-08-19 0:38 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-19 3:33 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-08-19 3:49 ` Robert Love
2001-08-21 7:17 ` Philipp Matthias Hahn
2001-08-19 18:46 ` Mike Castle
2001-08-19 3:12 ` Robert Love
2001-08-19 3:36 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-08-19 3:41 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-19 3:57 ` Robert Love
2001-08-19 3:56 ` Robert Love
2001-08-19 14:43 ` lists
2001-08-19 21:34 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-19 17:08 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-08-19 18:02 ` David Madore
2001-08-19 23:47 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-08-19 21:19 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-19 22:24 ` David Ford
2001-08-20 10:02 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-08-20 10:34 ` Johan Adolfsson
2001-08-20 10:47 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-08-20 13:07 ` Johan Adolfsson
2001-08-20 13:57 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-20 14:25 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-08-21 1:11 ` Theodore Tso
2001-08-21 1:36 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-21 9:43 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-08-21 9:59 ` Johan Adolfsson
2001-08-21 17:19 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-21 18:33 ` David Wagner
2001-08-21 4:33 ` Robert Love
2001-08-20 16:15 ` Robert Love
2001-08-20 16:36 ` Robert Love
2001-08-22 6:10 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2001-08-22 6:26 ` Robert Love
2001-08-22 17:27 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2001-08-22 8:54 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-22 13:47 ` Chris Friesen
2001-08-19 20:58 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-19 22:19 ` Mike Castle
2001-08-19 22:29 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-20 2:26 ` Mike Castle
2001-08-20 23:08 ` Tom Rini
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