[email protected] (Joerg Sonnenberger) writes: >Part of the problem here is that most of the non-RNG data sources are >easily observable either from the local system (e.g. any malicious user) >or other VMs on the same machine (in case of a hypervisor) or local >machines on the same network (in case of network interrupts). That's the >real reason why their entropy is hard to estimate. It becomes even more >annoying with modern hardware features like interrupt moderation of >nics. They can make the timing of interrupts highly predicable.
Must be a thing of the past, as we always ignored that information from NIC devices by default. No need to rip out the code that would allow it.
