Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 13 February 2005 08:38, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > It should be doable, yes. > > Another alternative is to verify that the drivers you are using > > (specifically NIC and disk drives) are set to provide entropy (there's > > a driver flag for it, can't remember what it's called right now) > > This is SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM in the call to request_irq(...)
But a word of caution: think twice before using your NIC as an entropy source - it is presumably exposed to the world and can be affected by untrusted parties in ways that will reduce randomness. It all depends on your needs, of course. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
