Re: CONFIG_RANDOM (compromise?)

Martin.Dalecki (dalecki@namu23.Num.Math.Uni-Goettingen.de)
Fri, 17 May 1996 09:56:18 +0200 (MET DST)


On Wed, 15 May 1996, Albert Cahalan wrote:

> Add an option called CONFIG_WEAK_RANDOM. When set, most of the
> calls to add randomness become NOPs and the pool becomes much
> smaller, perhaps only 256 bytes. A pseudo-random number generator
>
> Those of you that are _really_ paranoid (see a doctor...) can
> even add CONFIG_STRONG_RANDOM to have every single IRQ add
> randomness. You can get 2 bits of Pentium counter data every
> clock tick! Let the rest of us avoid the overhead.

In fact I did allready somethig very similiar to that idea.
Please take a glace at it. Its uuencoded and gzip'ed it is a patch against
linux-1.99.4

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