Re: [RFC] enhanced version of net_random()

[Alan Cox]

On Gwe, 2004-08-20 at 22:24, Lee Revell wrote:
> One problem is that AIUI, we incur this overhead even if a hardware RNG
> is present.  This does not seem right.  Hardware RNGs are increasingly
> common, Linux supports hardware RNGs from AMD, Intel, and VIA.

Hardware RNG's are actually fairly slow and thus are better as sources
to perturb a PRNG.

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