Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

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On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:15:17PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:46 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > 
> > > > Well if you can demonstrate that you're getting a higher rate of
> > > > throughput from your RNG by doing this in kernel space vs. doing
> > > > it in user space please let me know.
>
> > Well when you get 55mb/s from /dev/random please get back to me.
> 
> I cant, noone writes 55mbit into it, but HW RNG drivers could. :)

Are you intending to feed that into /dev/random at 55mb/s?

If not then how is this an argument against doing it in userspace
through rngd?
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