Hey,

On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 06:01:49PM +0000, Dominic Marks wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 09:53:25AM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > quick question: Are there any irqs that are generally a good source of 
> > entropy, for use with rndcontrol? I need a single setting that works 
> > well on a number of different machines (for our default configuration). 
> > Are there any drawbacks to specifying many irqs here (in the hope that 
> > some have good entropy on some machines, and others on other)?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Lars
> > -- 
> > Lars Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>               Information Sciences Institute
> > http://www.isi.edu/larse/              University of Southern California
> 
> I think this was debated before, and I seem to remember Mike
> Silbersack was the original poster. You might like to search the
> archives and see.
> 
> Or my memory could be in a twist (?).

Twisted Indeed:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi? *
fetch=530673+532567+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/ *
freebsd-hackers/20011111.freebsd-hackers

Similar, but different.

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