Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc/sys/dev/ic
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/08/2001 08:54:03
Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org> writes:
> > Isn't this an ethernet controller? It is VERY VERY dangerous to get
> > entropy from network devices.
> 
> In that case, RND_TYPE_NET shouldn't exist, rnd(9) should document
> this fact and the following drivers (which use it) should be fixed:

I've always been uncomfortable with using the network controllers for
entropy and I've said so a lot.

Perry
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