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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:20:33 +0200
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On Tuesday 26 June 2007 16:06:25 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Which, AFAIK, we can quantify as the minimum expected entropy in the output.

The category is _not_ a measure of the entropy in the output.
It is _just_ to get the chance to get a sane _default_ policy
for which RNG is enabled by default, in the kernel.
It's just about a default policy. _Nothing_ else.

-- 
Greetings Michael.