Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak

[Brian Fundakowski Feldman]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Mark Murray wrote:

> > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="yarrow_blocking.patch"
> 
> Brian:
> 
> I want to take a different approach to this one.
> 
> Do not commit anything to the /dev/random device, please, without running
> it by me.

I was not planning on it.  You really should take a look at the bugfixes,
though; reading buffer sizes of >8 bytes but not-8-byte-multiple should
do it.  There's also the ioctl handler which you need stubs for and then
checking for open devices when you attempt to unload the module.

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