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Date:      Fri, 8 Feb 2002 18:01:49 +0000
From:      Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com>
To:        Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: which irqs are generally good for rndcontrol?
Message-ID:  <20020208180149.A42549@host213-123-132-86.in-addr.btop>
In-Reply-To: <3C641095.50801@isi.edu>; from larse@ISI.EDU on Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 09:53:25AM -0800
References:  <3C641095.50801@isi.edu>

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Hey,

On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 09:53:25AM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> quick question: Are there any irqs that are generally a good source of 
> entropy, for use with rndcontrol? I need a single setting that works 
> well on a number of different machines (for our default configuration). 
> Are there any drawbacks to specifying many irqs here (in the hope that 
> some have good entropy on some machines, and others on other)?
> 
> Thanks,
> Lars
> -- 
> Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu>               Information Sciences Institute
> http://www.isi.edu/larse/              University of Southern California

I think this was debated before, and I seem to remember Mike
Silbersack was the original poster. You might like to search the
archives and see.

Or my memory could be in a twist (?).

-- 
Dominic

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