On Sunday 24 June 2007 16:30:59 Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 03:55:22PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > This adds quality categories for hardware random number generators.
>
> > +static const char * hwrng_quality_string(enum hwrng_quality qual)
> > +{
> > + switch (qual) {
> > + case HWRNG_QUAL_HIGH:
> > + return "high";
> > + case HWRNG_QUAL_NORMAL:
> > + return "normal";
> > + case HWRNG_QUAL_LOW:
> > + return "low";
> > + case HWRNG_QUAL_PSEUDO:
> > + return "pseudo";
>
> And how are you going to extend this in future? HWRNG_QUAL_SUPERB ?
Why extend it? "high" means devices which generate truely
random data. Do you have a device which generates data more
random than true-random? how?
See the descriptions in hw_random.h
--
Greetings Michael.
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