On Oct 19 2005, at 11:01, Jeff Garzik was caught saying:
> Not interesting in pursuing this path. This has been discussed
> endlessly, check the archives.
>
> We want the FIPS tests. Hardware (especially cheap hardware) is often
> known to go haywire. Trusting hardware to do the FIPS tests is pretty
> silly, since you're trusting the piece that might go haywire to tell you
> its OK. RNGs have a history of suddenly providing non-random data, for
> a variety of reasons (usually poor board wiring).
>
> We also want the userspace daemon because that gives the sysadmin far
> more control over how much entropy is added to the system. 99.9% of the
> cases in the real world, we don't want the RNG pumping entropy into the
> pool at full speed. That will likely pump in more data than a system
> needs, chewing CPU. The admin can't even kill the daemon to reclaim his
> CPU, if its all in-kernel.
OK, understood. But other than the fastpath idea, are you OK with
the direction I took with the code?
~Deepak
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