On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:31 PM, David Shaw <ds...@jabberwocky.com> wrote: > On some platforms, a hardware RNG actually ends up feeding /dev/random. > This is particularly nice as it means GPG (or any program that uses > /dev/random) benefits without code modification. But this has a disadvantage if that hardware RNG is of bad quality. Werner said that that VIA thing is used as _additional_ source, isn't it? So I assume even if it would produce bad data, gnupg would merge it with the normal /dev/random and still produce random data which is not worse than without having that VIA thing, or am I missing something?
btw: This VIA thing is an onboard chip, right? It would be nice to have something available that I can buy on connect e.g. via USB and get support for gnupg :-) Cheerio, Peter _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
