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

[Jeff Garzik]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> BTW what do you do when the FIPS test fails? I dont see a good fallback
> path for this case.

If the FIPS test fails, do the obvious:  don't feed that data to the 
kernel (and credit entropy), and possibly stop using the hardware RNG 
under a human has intervened.

This is not rocket science.  The fallback path is "use software", which 
is what most users do right now anyway.

	Jeff

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