Exactly.

Personally, I enable them.

--Michael

itojun@iijlab.net writes:

> >Why are network entropy not enabled by default?
> >	/*
> >	 * force network devices to not collect any entropy by
> >	 * default
> >	 */
> >	if (type == RND_TYPE_NET)
> >		flags |= (RND_FLAG_NO_COLLECT | RND_FLAG_NO_ESTIMATE);
> 
> 	i'm guessing...
> 	since we are not 100% sure if network devices are trustworthy random
> 	number source, as outsiders may be able to affect the "randomness"
> 	that comes from the device?
> 
> itojun