Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 May 2006 11:33:19 -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 12:35:08PM +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote: > > > Consider adding a cheap soundcard to the system and run > > > 'audio-entropyd': www.vanheusden.com/aed > > Can't get much cheaper than the crap that comes on every motherboard > > these days ;-) > > Also aren't temp sensors (on the disk or mobo) a good entropy source? > > Not sure about that. If I look at > http://keetweej.vanheusden.com/draw_temp.php?limit=86400 it looks like > that at least the cpu sensor gets only updated every x seconds.
Yeah, heat sensors are not terribly useful. Thermal insulation acts as a very aggressive low pass filter on whatever noise might exist in the input.
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