Re: [HW_RNG] How to use generic rng in kernel space

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To: Michael Buesch <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HW_RNG] How to use generic rng in kernel space
From: Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:44:01 -0400
Cc: moreau francis <[email protected]>, [email protected]
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Michael Buesch wrote:

I am not a friend of a direct in-kernel hwrng access interface,
because it may return crap data by definition. Many (all current)
RNG devices may fail and return non-random data. If that's happily
used by some in-kernel user by the interface, we are screwed.


Yes, this is the reason why we pass it through userspace...

	Jeff


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