From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 23 16:50:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750E816A403 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:50:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C08BC43DA6 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:49:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (xydilc@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k9NGnLdp065469; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:49:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k9NGnLgQ065468; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:49:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:49:21 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200610231649.k9NGnLgQ065468@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, matthieu.michaud@epita.info In-Reply-To: <45393A29.3080100@epita.info> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.8.2-20060425 ("Shillay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:49:26 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: VIA C7 support X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, matthieu.michaud@epita.info List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:50:45 -0000 Matthieu Michaud wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Also take into account that you usually don't read that > > much data from /dev/random. Quality is much more important > > than speed. > > you are right. do you know an easy way to evaluate this quality ? There is no easy way, I'm afraid. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "File names are infinite in length, where infinity is set to 255 characters." -- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"