hi!
> > > Is it feasible to offer a compile-time option which simply replaces
> > > /dev/random?
> >
> > Methinks that would be an error. You'd be trusting the RNG too much.
> > Use it as an input to /dev/random by all means, but not as a
> > replacement.
>
> Either you trust RNG or you don't. There is no middle ground.
I just trust hardware RNG to be more random then keypresses. Yes there
is middle ground.
> If you do not trust RNG, then using it as a /dev/random entropy source
> is pointless. Why introduce theoretically non-random entropy to the
> /dev/random pool?
We already include keypresses in /dev/random pool. They are not
random, are they? Network packet timing is also far from random, is
it? But both are still valuable sources of data.
Pavel
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