Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy(2.6.11)

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 02:19 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > Noone will complain on Linux if NIC is broken and produces wrong
> > checksum
> > and HW checksum offloading is enabled using ethtools.
> 
> 
> Actually, that is a problem and people have definitely complained about 
> it in the past.

And what they were recommended to do? :)
I believe not changing drivers and stack, but only disable it using
ethtool.

And people of course should be able to turn kernlspace <-> kernelspace
RNG dataflow off if they fill it is insecure.

> 	Jeff
> 
-- 
        Evgeniy Polyakov

Crash is better than data corruption -- Arthur Grabowski

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