On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 00:01:08 +1000 Gaetan Bisson wrote: > Quite the contrary: if you have one weak source, it'll make the kernel > believe it has more entropy that it actually has, while other sources, > seeing as you've filled your entropy pool, won't contribute to it, > leaving you with the fake entropy. > > Better a single good source than one bad and many good ones. Or guess > what kind of problem you'll run into... I suggest you look into OpenBSDs methods that use many sources. No one mentioned weak sources. Note: they weren't too impressed with haveged. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/rnd.c?rev=1.140;content-type=text%2Fplain
