[OneRNG-Discuss] Debian 12 kernel ignoring entropy from OneRNG?

Tom Yates madhatter at teaparty.net
Thu Mar 14 22:15:52 GMT 2024


On Fri, 15 Mar 2024, Jim Cheetham wrote:

> However, there are good comments all over the code ... I think I can understand those ...
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random.git/tree/drivers/char/random.c#n1352
>
>> "Writing to either /dev/random or /dev/urandom adds entropy to the input pool but does not credit it."

well, that's very interesting; thank you.  i guess i'll leave my OneRNG 
inside that system, then, merrily ticking away.


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