Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I will submit this as a patch ... On second thought, no I won't. The existing driver uses the gcc latent entropy plugin to initialise the pool. I'm not sure how much entropy that provides & worry that it might not be enough on some systems. However it has an enormous advantage over my proposal, in that it is likely to give somewhat different results on every boot. I have working code for a program to generate initialised pool arrays & if anyone needs it, they can certainly have it. However, I will not be trying to get it into the mainstream kernel. > /* > * Program to select random numbers for initialising things > * in the random(4) driver. ... > * Inserting random data at compile time can do no harm and > * will make some attacks considerably harder. ...
