[Freedombox-discuss] timer entropy

Sandy Harris sandyinchina at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 02:26:58 UTC 2011


On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Sandy Harris <sandyinchina at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have written a demon for Linux that gathers entropy from timer
> jitter and pushes it into random(4). There is working code and a
> PDF rationale document.
>
> Comment and criticism solicited.
>
> It is at: ftp://ftp.cs.sjtu.edu.cn:990/sandy/maxwell/

It is now in a stable releasable state.

Comment & criticism still wanted. Thanks to those who
already commented.

Does anyone want to take on packaging it for Debian?
I am not much interested in taking that on myself.



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