Hi1 > > When dropping the add_disk_randomness function in the legacy /dev/random, I > > would assume that without changes to add_input_randomness and > > add_interrupt_randomness, we become even more entropy-starved. > > Sure, but your system isn't doing anything magical here. The main > difference is that you assume you can get almost a full bit of entropy > out of each interrupt timing, where I'm much more conservative and > assume we can only get 1/64th of a bit out of each interrupt timing. Maybe 1/64th of a bit is a bit too conservative? I guess we really have more than one bit of entropy on any system with timestamp counter.... Making it 1/2 of bit (or something) should be very easy way to improve entropy early during boot... Best regards, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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
