Subject: Re: rnd_add_uint32()
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: enami tsugutomo <enami@sm.sony.co.jp>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/21/2002 17:06:00
itojun@iijlab.net writes:

> 	- add the specified number to entropy pool
> 	by calling it on each iteration i was trying to do the latter,
> 	since there's no meaningful random value outside of the loop.

Is the value of interrupt status register so random?  I wonder how
much it helps if stirring the pool with isr (in addition to the
timestamp value itself, which is already done).

enami.