On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> wrote: >> We should definitely do this. If the TPM driver could fetch some >> randomness and then call add_device_randomness() to feed this into the >> random driver's entropy pool when it initializes itself, that would be >> ***really*** cool. > > > rngd already does this.
And all those random numbers generated before rngd starts are quite possibly crap. I think that rngd makes sense as a tool to access strange sources of entropy and to periodically reseed the pool, but I also think that the kernel should really be pulling in easily available entropy on its own at startup. --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
