/dev/random

[Steve Kargl]

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 at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:03:09PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> >> Steve Kargl <sgk at 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