On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 01:07:35PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > Instead of having only one hwrng feeding /dev/random at a time, maintain > a list of devices and cycle between them when filling the entropy pool. > > Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx> So you're cycling RNGs even for user-space reads? That could be problematic because not all hardware RNGs carry the maximum amount of entropy. It would be rather annoying to be cycling between RNGs of different qualities. Perhaps only cycle for the kernel hwrngd? Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
