Re: linux-ipsec: Re: Proposal (was Summary re: /dev/random)

[John D. Hardin]

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, David Honig wrote:

> There are measures of entropy you could use, e.g.,
> Maurer's Universal Statistical Test.  The problem is
> how to fit them into the OS without bogging down
> the system, or not responding adequately to the 
> interrupts.  

...so we need a userspace program that grabs some bits, figures out
how much entropy they contain, feeds the bits into the pool and
updates the /dev/random entropy counter using the ioctl calls posted
earlier.

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