Re: new /dev/random

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 10/09/04 

Date: 9 Oct 2004 01:16:16 GMT

daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) writes:

]Bill Unruh wrote:
]>I just did a grep of all of the files in the kernel code looking for
]>urandom.

]get_random_bytes()

]Maybe there are other internal interfaces for all I know.

Fair enough. Lots more calls to that function.
                                                                                
In fact lots of interfaces even in random.c. My observation, although true,
was irrelevant.
                                                                                
( reminds me of that old Microsoft joke-- pilot to skyscraper "where am I?"
Skyscraper to pilot "Here". Pilot to self "Must be Microsoft headquarters.
Answer perfectly true and completely unhelpful")
                                                                                
Sorry.

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