This doesn't work AT ALL. You even hint at the reason why in your message. On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:26 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As such, this conservatism seems more than justified. Note, however, > that attempting to add one bit of entropy will never succeed; nor will > two bits unless the pool is completely empty. These roundoff > artifacts could be improved by using fixed-point arithmetic and adding > some number of fractional entropy bits. Take a look at "add_interrupt_randomness()". Hmm.. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html