Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] adding rng-tools to extra?

On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 00:01:08 +1000 Gaetan Bisson wrote:

Quite the contrary: if you have one weak source, it'll make the kernel believe it has more entropy that it actually has, while other sources, seeing as you've filled your entropy pool, won't contribute to it, leaving you with the fake entropy.

Better a single good source than one bad and many good ones. Or guess what kind of problem you'll run into...

I suggest you look into OpenBSDs methods that use many sources. No one mentioned weak sources. Note: they weren't too impressed with haveged. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/rnd.c?rev=1.140;content-ty...