On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 13:44, Sam Leffler wrote:
> Right.  If the crypto h/w has a RNG on it then the entropy is automatically
> fed to the system PRNG.  This can be a big win since it allows you to
> disable IRQ entropy harvesting which is too expensive for a production
> environment.

Ahh, very nice.

Maybe I should just read the code 8-)

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