Bill Davidsen wrote:
If the hardware RNG always fails to all zeros it should be possible to
detect that it failed with the need for userspace daemons. While true
random bits might legitimately have 10k zeros in a row, I will bet that
if it happens the device isn't working.
Or all 1's (more likely), or all 0x55's, or...
Jeff
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