Re: [PATCH 7/14] random: Remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from network drivers

[Matt Mackall]

On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 12:35:08PM +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> > > Consider adding a cheap soundcard to the system and run
> > > 'audio-entropyd': www.vanheusden.com/aed 
> > Can't get much cheaper than the crap that comes on every motherboard
> > these days ;-)
> > Also aren't temp sensors (on the disk or mobo) a good entropy source?
> 
> Not sure about that. If I look at
> http://keetweej.vanheusden.com/draw_temp.php?limit=86400 it looks like
> that at least the cpu sensor gets only updated every x seconds.

Yeah, heat sensors are not terribly useful. Thermal insulation acts as
a very aggressive low pass filter on whatever noise might exist in the
input.

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