Re: Continuing /dev/random problems with 2.4

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Fri, 01 Feb 2002 12:40:43 -0800


Jeff Garzik wrote:

>
> Even if you think you have a good true source of random noise, you need
> to run good fitness tests on the data to ensure it's truly random.
>

The i810 user-space code already should do this, though, right? Could one
simply point the existing rngd at /dev/dsp instead?

-hpa

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