On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 06:43:49PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Consider what an RNG does: spews garbage. > > In practical applications, you -do not- want to dedicate the machine to > spewing garbage. The vast majority of users would prefer to use their > machines for real stuff. Thus, "extreme RNG consumption" is largely > irrelevant to sane usage.
I have clients who run online Casinos. So spewing lots of reliable garbage is a good thing. That's why they chose Fortuna. Bad random data input is not a factor as long as there is enough trustwothy random data coming in. JLC - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
