Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] (0/4) Entropy accounting fixes | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 18 Aug 2002 13:20:41 -0400 |
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On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 13:18, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> I'm thinking of changing urandom read to avoid pulling entropy from > the primary pool (via xfer) if it falls below a given low > watermark. The important part is to prevent starvation of > /dev/random, it doesn't have to be fair.
A watermark (perhaps /proc configurable) is a very sane way of doing this. Great.
> My patches should provide sufficient entropy for any workstation use > with or without network sampling. It's only the headless case that's > problematic - see my compromise patch with trust_pct.
Sounds good to me, so we shall see...
Robert Love
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