From: Sune Kirkeby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: entropy-0.2 [Was: Re: /dev/{,u}random driver]
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 20:53:09 +0200
> There is one thing with the implementation that bothers me, though. The
> data is hashed both by egd and by my entropy translator, which seems a
> bit wasteful of cycles...
I think it would be better to convert egd to a translator and
replace it with your entropy translator. That should simplify your
implementation and you will lose nothing.
> I have just uploaded a new version of the entropy translator, with the
> egd-glue program mentioned. So, now there is a completely user-space
> /dev/{,u}random driver for the Hurd.
I appreciate your work very much. It will be a starting point for
some programs which require a random device.
However, I hope that someone will work on a kernel-space random
device driver, because it should be less predictable.
Okuji
