On 09/13/2013 11:59 AM, Marcus Leech wrote:
Any physical-world sensor driver, where the sensor inherently has a
bit of noise, I think has a "moral obligation" to contribute bits to
the kernel entopy pool.
Within limits. Mixing the entropy pool on Linux takes work and battery
power.
Looking
[* Until Linux kernel 3.6 the person maintaining urandom was busily turning off interrupts as a source of entropy, I think because he didn't know how much entropy he was getting so better not to get it at all (huh?). In 3.6 this was changed to use all interrupts as entropy sources, which is good
On 09/12/2013 10:41 AM, Kent Borg wrote:
routers and servers are not as bad off as people say.
Not that more sources is bad. A new trustworthy HW entropy source would
be good. Even a suspect rdrand is worth XORing in (as Linux does on the
machine I am using right now).
But if you thirst f
On 09/11/2013 07:18 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
the world's routers, servers, etc. do not have good sources,
especially at first boot time, and for customer NAT boxes and the like
the price points are vicious.
I agree that things like consumer NAT boxes have a tricky problem, and
anything th
