From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 18 3:12:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8397F37BEFB for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 03:12:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA08680; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 12:12:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Mark Murray Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:53:57 +0200." <200007180853.KAA00363@grimreaper.grondar.za> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 12:12:25 +0200 Message-ID: <8678.963915145@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200007180853.KAA00363@grimreaper.grondar.za>, Mark Murray writes: >> >> I ran a quick & dirty test here on some logfiles: that offset is >> >> very close to white noise. >> > >> >With what amplitude? >> >> Depends on the termal environment of your xtal obviously :-) > >Help me here! :-) > >In your observed sample, what was the white noise amplitude? What do you mean by "amplitude" ? The frequency deviation ? The phase error ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message