Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You are mistaken. Do yourself a favour and get a book about (pseudo) > random number generators, entropy, hash functions and cryptography. > If you don't start with random numbers, you can turn the numbers upside > down, it won't get any more random than what you started with.
There's also a nice comment at the top of drivers/char/random.c that (I assume) Ted Ts'o wrote. It's a nice, succinct explanation of many things regarding linux randomness and randomness in general. --
