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Patrick Lamaiziere patfbsd at davenulle.org
Wed Aug 22 10:29:32 UTC 2012


Le Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:17:52 +0400,
Lev Serebryakov <lev at serebryakov.spb.ru> a écrit :

>   But  `man  glxsb'  says, for example, that its hardware RNG is used
> to harvest entropy...

For the record, I've tested (in FreeBSD 7) the output of glxsb with
rndtest(4) and that looked good.

glxsb collects one uint32 of "pure entropy" each hz/100 (10 ms), I'm
not sure if this is enough (?)

Regards.


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