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LCE: Don't play dice with random numbersLCE: Don't play dice with random numbersPosted Nov 23, 2012 21:23 UTC (Fri) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)In reply to: LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers by vomlehn Parent article: LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers
> Good idea, because the first cut, just using the kernel equivalent of /dev/random, had nowhere near enough entropy and would have failed dismally. I ended up reading serial numbers and such in the hardware to help get me something useful.
Recent kernels have fixed that problem by reading serial numbers and such in the hardware and adding them to the pool on bot.
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