Re: Entropy Pool Contents

From: Phillip Susi
Date: Tue Nov 28 2006 - 13:40:37 EST


Martin Mares wrote:
Yes, but the point is that you cannot tell how much randomness is in the
data you provide.

That is exactly my point. Since you can not tell how much randomness is in the data you provide, you can not tell the kernel how much to add to its entropy estimate. Instead it just has to estimate based on the amount of data you provide.

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