From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752542Ab3KKC73 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Nov 2013 21:59:29 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:35703 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751016Ab3KKC7W (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Nov 2013 21:59:22 -0500 Message-ID: <528047E9.2020503@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:58:49 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephan Mueller , Clemens Ladisch CC: "Theodore Ts'o" , Pavel Machek , sandy harris , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Nicholas Mc Guire Subject: Re: [PATCH] CPU Jitter RNG: inclusion into kernel crypto API and /dev/random References: <2579337.FPgJGgHYdz@tauon> <2051753.dJvMFQBFA1@myon.chronox.de> <527FB4CB.7000106@ladisch.de> <8100659.WdgUuKxd0z@myon.chronox.de> In-Reply-To: <8100659.WdgUuKxd0z@myon.chronox.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/10/2013 09:21 AM, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > Here you say it: we *assume*. And please bear in mind that we all know for a > fact that the theory behind quantum physics is not complete, because it does > not work together with the theory of relativity. That again is a hint that > there is NO proof that decay is really unpredictable. > Honestly, if you want to be taken seriously, this is not the kind of thing to put in your discussion. -hpa