From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753383AbXLHT40 (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2007 14:56:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750949AbXLHT4T (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2007 14:56:19 -0500 Received: from waste.org ([66.93.16.53]:39467 "EHLO waste.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750795AbXLHT4S (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2007 14:56:18 -0500 Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 13:53:42 -0600 From: Matt Mackall To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Theodore Tso , Mike McGrath , Jon Masters , Alan Cox , Ray Lee , Adrian Bunk , Marc Haber , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hmh@debian.org Subject: Re: entropy gathering (was Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?) Message-ID: <20071208195342.GO19691@waste.org> References: <4755D350.1080801@redhat.com> <20071204223345.GJ19691@waste.org> <4756B50B.3060100@redhat.com> <20071205144934.GL7259@thunk.org> <1197099477.20786.149.camel@perihelion> <20071208173204.GI17037@thunk.org> <475AD585.7020908@redhat.com> <20071208174908.GJ17037@thunk.org> <20071208181525.GL19691@waste.org> <475AF241.5000809@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <475AF241.5000809@garzik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:36:33PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > As an aside... > > Speaking as the maintainer rng-tools, which is the home of the hardware > RNG entropy gathering daemon... > > I wish somebody (not me) would take rngd and several other projects, and > combine them into a single actively maintained "entropy gathering" package. I think we should re-evaluate having an internal path from the hwrngs to /dev/[u]random, which will reduce the need for userspace config that can go wrong. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.