Re: entropy (random bits) question

From: Clayton Weaver (cgweav_at_aol.com)
Date: 11/06/04

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    Ok, thanks for the info.

    (It was merely a practical question:
    is this worth doing if it reduces
    interrupt overhead for random data collection where the randomness
    requirement on the output is
    absolute. Assumed that it costs
    less for a cpu to spray some bits
    around in memory than to read
    the entire demand for random
    bit sequences over an i/o bus, as
    long as it has a some unpredictable
    random bytes to start with. But if
    it risks losing entropy, that's going
    backwards, so ...)

    Regards,

    Clayton Weaver
    <mailto: cgweav@aol.com>

    "Everyone is ignorant, just about different things." Will Rogers

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