Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:44:39 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Message-ID: <10163.963935079@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:05:34 %2B0200." <200007181305.PAA00891@grimreaper.grondar.za>
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In message <200007181305.PAA00891@grimreaper.grondar.za>, Mark Murray writes: >> >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 ? > >The standard deviation of all the observation "amplitudes", measured >in bits. OK, then the answer is: "a couple of bits" -- 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
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