Re: Could this be applied to random(4)?

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On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This document describes extractors. Those extractors are intended to combine
> *independent* sources with weak entropy.
>
> None of our sources we have in add_*_randomness are independent.

No, but it would be easy to get two independent sources, interrupts
and some sort of timer jitter thing as in my maxwell, your jitter
driver, havege, ...
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