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

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:25:40AM -0500, Jean-Luc Cooke wrote:
> 
> If your RNG were properly written, it shouldn't matter if the data you're
> pumping into /dev/random passed muster or not.  If you're tracking entropy
> count, then that's a different story of course.

We're talking about hardware RNGs here so we need to take hardware faults
into account.

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