Matt Mackall wrote:
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:36:33PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
As an aside...
Speaking as the maintainer rng-tools, which is the home of the hardware
RNG entropy gathering daemon...
I wish somebody (not me) would take rngd and several other projects, and
combine them into a single actively maintained "entropy gathering" package.
I think we should re-evaluate having an internal path from the hwrngs
to /dev/[u]random, which will reduce the need for userspace config
that can go wrong.
That's a bit of a tangent on a tangent. :) Most people don't have a
hardware RNG.
But as long as there are adequate safeguards against common hardware
failures (read: FIPS testing inside the kernel), go for it.
Jeff
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