On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 09:56 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Well, there is enough prove out there that the hardware you're using > > is a perfect random number generator by itself. > > > > So stop complaining about not having access to TPM chips if you can > > create an entropy source just by (ab)using the inherent randomness of > > modern CPU architectures to refill your entropy pool on the fly when > > the need arises w/o imposing completely unintuitive thresholds and > > user visible API changes. > > We started out going down that path: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg05778.html > > We hit a bit of a roadblock with it though. Have you guys seen this work: http://lwn.net/images/conf/rtlws11/random-hardware.pdf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
