LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers
LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers
Posted Nov 23, 2012 21:23 UTC (Fri) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)In reply to: LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers by vomlehn
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> Good idea, because the first cut, just using the kernel equivalent of /dev/random, had nowhere near enough entropy and would have failed dismally. I ended up reading serial numbers and such in the hardware to help get me something useful.
Recent kernels have fixed that problem by reading serial numbers and such in the hardware and adding them to the pool on bot.