From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com,
herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Make /dev/urandom scalable
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 09:12:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150924131235.GB6841@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5603E083.8020004@gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 07:37:39AM -0400, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote:
> Using /dev/urandom directly, yes that doesn't make sense because it
> consistent returns non-uniformly random numbers when used to generate larger
> amounts of entropy than the blocking pool can source
Why do you think this is the case? Reproduction, please?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-24 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-22 23:16 [PATCH 1/3] Make /dev/urandom scalable Andi Kleen
2015-09-22 23:16 ` [PATCH 2/3] random: Make input to output pool balancing per cpu Andi Kleen
2015-09-22 23:16 ` [PATCH 3/3] random: Add pool name to urandom_read trace point Andi Kleen
2015-09-22 23:25 ` [PATCH 1/3] Make /dev/urandom scalable Andi Kleen
2015-09-23 10:32 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-23 21:54 ` Andi Kleen
2015-09-23 19:40 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-23 23:28 ` Andi Kleen
2015-09-24 11:37 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-24 13:12 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2015-09-24 16:00 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-24 16:52 ` Jeff Epler
2015-09-24 19:11 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-24 20:00 ` Jeff Epler
2015-09-24 20:14 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-09-25 11:41 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-25 19:07 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-25 20:24 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-09-29 12:06 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-29 11:57 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-23 21:10 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-09-23 21:25 ` Andi Kleen
2015-09-24 17:19 Updated scalable urandom patchkit Andi Kleen
2015-09-24 17:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] Make /dev/urandom scalable Andi Kleen
2015-09-30 14:40 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2015-10-06 22:05 Andi Kleen
2016-02-10 23:01 Scalable random patchkit revisited Andi Kleen
2016-02-10 23:01 ` [PATCH 1/3] Make /dev/urandom scalable Andi Kleen
2016-03-01 5:17 Andi Kleen
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