Re: [PATCH] (0/4) Entropy accounting fixes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
19 Aug 2002 13:29:10 +0100

On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 11:47, Marco Colombo wrote:
>
> BTW, I know you wrote the amd768-rng driver, I wonder if you have any
> indication of how good these rng are. What is the typical output bits/
> random bits ratio in normal applications?

It seems random. People have subjected both the intel and AMD one to
statistical test sets. I'm not a cryptographer or a statistician so I
can't answer usefully

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