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

From: Paul Jackson
Date: Wed Mar 30 2005 - 17:34:41 EST


Jeff wrote:
> Or all 1's (more likely), or all 0x55's, or...

Stray thought - to follow up stray thought:

Hmmm ... run some numbers through a good compression program,
and complain if they compress much.

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