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

[Jean-Luc Cooke]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 06:43:49PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Consider what an RNG does:  spews garbage.
> 
> In practical applications, you -do not- want to dedicate the machine to 
> spewing garbage.  The vast majority of users would prefer to use their
> machines for real stuff.  Thus, "extreme RNG consumption" is largely
> irrelevant to sane usage.

I have clients who run online Casinos.  So spewing lots of reliable garbage
is a good thing.  That's why they chose Fortuna.  Bad random data input is
not a factor as long as there is enough trustwothy random data coming in.

JLC
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