Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:18:43 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Ben Laurie <ben@links.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/random Message-ID: <20120821171843.GA2142@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <CAG5KPzzsXCMy9wLAnF-pz5zJQEwu9=VVeSqVXwWtH%2Bs7EdqmUg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAG5KPzz4GQ2C_ky_qrDroQ4srGL4daW0OO-F3eOvvL-9AO6zoQ@mail.gmail.com> <20120820220243.GA96700@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <CAG5KPzwBzWvDFDZqzT4masbknKfVe-rvdTd1h6ZxEoG90Rcxqg@mail.gmail.com> <20120820225504.GA78528@server.rulingia.com> <5033346C.3080907@FreeBSD.org> <20120821073931.GA99502@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <86sjbga7fm.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20120821153408.GA1782@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <CAG5KPzzsXCMy9wLAnF-pz5zJQEwu9=VVeSqVXwWtH%2Bs7EdqmUg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 04:44:38PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Steve Kargl > <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:03:09PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > >> Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> writes: > >> > Well, only one person seems confused, but OP seems to remain adament > >> > in being terse in his questions. Yes, it seems OP has conflated PRNG > >> > and entropy, but again he seems to not want to explain his point of > >> > view. > >> > >> Maybe your attitude scared him off? > >> > > > > What attitude? Look at my first post. I asked > > Ben to explain *why* he thought it was a mistake. > > His 3 sentence response can be summarized as "I > > think it is a mistake, because that's what I > > think." > > Whatever. > > Have my other posts clarified sufficiently for you? Yes, Peter Jeremy's posts have been helpful as well as reading dev/random/probe.c. It is clear that this issue can effect only i386 and amd64 class platforms and in particular those platforms with a Via processors. -- Steve
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