Collecting entropy from device_attach() times.

Jonathan Anderson jonathan at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 20 06:54:58 UTC 2012


On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 20:47, Ben Laurie wrote:

> Erring on the side of underestimation is wise here.

I agree wholeheartedly, but underestimation means "calculating the correct value and then applying a safety factor" rather than "picking an arbitrary number and hoping it's low enough".

It seems like later posts in this thread are starting to push in the mathematically-rigorous direction; I shall go reply to those as well. :)


Jon
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