On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 13:48 -0400, Kent Borg wrote: > Matt Mackall wrote: > > Kent Borg wrote: > >>So network entropy is being eradicated, and nothing is being done to > >>replace it. > > > >Nothing is being done is a more accurate summary of the situation. > > > So the feature-removal-schedule.txt entry about IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM is > obsolete? > > (Then the trend from three network drivers to ten network drivers should > be accelerated and restore we should restore the deleted instances of > IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM??) > > > -kb, the Kent who sees network adapter interrupt timing as a usually > good source of entropy.
It's a great source of potential entropy, a bad source of guaranteed entropy. The current RNG tries to do accounting on the latter. Accounting on the former is extremely suspect. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
