Re: Intel 810 Random Number Generator

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Mon, 24 Jan 2000 10:02:54 -0500

Frank v Waveren wrote:
> Am I missing something here? I thought that you could mix all the non-random
> numbers you want into the entropy pool (long live xor), and it will never make
> the entropy worse? So I'd say mixing in the RNG won't do any harm, so why not?

Read the intro text in drivers/char/random.c...

If the RNG provides a lot more data than other entropy sources, it can
throw things out of whack.

Jeff

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