Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 May 2006 21:55:29 -0500 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/14] random: Remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from network drivers |
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On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 08:13:33PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > But in answer to your question, what should we do, my suggestion would > be to sample all interrupts, and calculate the estimated entropy > credits as we to day, but scaled by an amount that can range from 0 to > 100%.
I actually posted a patch to add a sysctl to do exactly that a few years ago.
> But for most normal/modern platforms, I would argue the default > scaling factor should be 100%.
And I would argue it should be no more than 50%. Just because I've seen so many would-have-thought-they-were-impossible attacks pan out.
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