Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM | From | Glen Turner <> | Date | Mon, 26 May 2008 00:32:02 +0930 |
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On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 22:34 +0200, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> Perhaps it would be possible to make most types of interrupts add > entropy, but not credit any entropy?
You need to be certain that those sources are not able to be influenced by a hostile party, otherwise the entropy pool can be degraded to be less random over successive samples than its entropy score suggests. Interrupts do not meet that test.
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