On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 06:43:49PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > In any case, it is the wrong solution to simply "turn on the tap" and > let the RNG spew data. There needs to be a limiting factor... typically > rngd should figure out when /dev/random needs more entropy, or simply > delay a little bit between entropy collection/stuffing runs.
Completely agreed. Having it in rngd also allows the scheduler to do its job. When applications need entropy from /dev/random and they can't get it, they'll simply block which allows rngd to run to refill the tank. -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
