Re: [RFC] frandom - fast random generator module
From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Thu Oct 16 2003 - 18:09:59 EST
Eli Billauer wrote:
If a hardware device driver is buggy, you usually know about it sooner
or later. If an RNG has a rare bug, or an architecture-dependent flaw,
it's much harder to notice. If the RNG starts to repeat itself, you
won't know about it, unless you happened to test exactly that data. The
algorithm may be perfect, but a silly bug can blow it all.
rngd tests for this :)
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