From: daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem with random.c and PPC
Date: 22 Aug 2002 03:19:40 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ak1l8c$drl$2@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3D5D6621.E33EA4BE@nortelnetworks.com
Chris Friesen wrote:
>The problem is this. If you have an embedded system that is headless,
>diskless, keyboardless, and
>mouseless, then your only remaining source of any interrupt-based
>entropy is the network.
Try replacing "network" with "/dev/zero" to see how your sentence
sounds, and then maybe the flaw in your reasoning will become apparent.
"If you have an embedded system that is headless, etc., then your
only remaining source of entropy is /dev/zero."
Well, sometimes there is just no reliable entropy source on hand.
Maybe it's better to admit that than to fool ourselves.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-22 3:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-16 10:00 Problem with random.c and PPC Jon Burgess
2002-08-16 19:52 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-08-16 17:51 ` henrique
2002-08-16 21:21 ` Ruth Ivimey-Cook
2002-08-17 0:47 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-08-17 0:45 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-08-17 6:05 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-08-17 7:23 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-08-17 9:09 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-08-17 16:56 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-08-19 9:29 ` Marco Colombo
2002-08-19 14:02 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-08-19 15:11 ` Marco Colombo
2002-08-19 15:29 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-08-19 16:20 ` Marco Colombo
2002-08-19 16:33 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-08-19 20:23 ` Marco Colombo
2002-08-22 3:16 ` David Wagner
2002-08-16 20:52 ` Chris Friesen
2002-08-17 0:29 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-08-22 3:19 ` David Wagner [this message]
2002-08-22 15:40 ` Chris Friesen
2002-08-22 17:25 ` Remco Post
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-15 16:10 henrique
2002-08-15 15:14 henrique
2002-08-15 18:25 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-08-15 19:03 ` Tom Rini
2002-08-15 19:59 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-08-15 21:04 ` Tom Rini
2002-08-16 1:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-16 16:33 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-08-16 16:28 ` Oliver Xymoron
[not found] ` <20020816170126.GD26993@opus.bloom.county>
2002-08-16 17:15 ` Oliver Xymoron
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