Subject: Re: [RFC] enhanced version of net_random()

From: Alan Cox <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 00:55:01 +0100

On Gwe, 2004-08-20 at 22:24, Lee Revell wrote:
> One problem is that AIUI, we incur this overhead even if a hardware RNG
> is present.  This does not seem right.  Hardware RNGs are increasingly
> common, Linux supports hardware RNGs from AMD, Intel, and VIA.

Hardware RNG's are actually fairly slow and thus are better as sources
to perturb a PRNG.