On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 08:45:10AM -0500, Jean-Luc Cooke wrote: > > I have clients who run online Casinos. So spewing lots of reliable garbage > is a good thing. That's why they chose Fortuna. Bad random data input is > not a factor as long as there is enough trustwothy random data coming in.
I don't think the Casino operators will be very happy when their supposed hardware RNGs degenerate into software RNGs because it's feeding all zeros into /dev/random and nobody noticed... -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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/