Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys

[Werner Koch]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:26:00 +0100, Florian Weimer said:

>> Sure.  That was orginally Ted Tso's plan but he could not get a solid
>> RNG into the kernel because the kernel hackers required to amke
>> /dev/random optional and Ted's plan was to have a solid RNG in the
>> kernel as a standard service.

> /dev/random is no longer optional, it's needed by the network stack

It has never been optional.  This was a top priority design criteria
and the one-pool-only design is due to this.  Thanks to the
stubbornness of some Linux hackers.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner