[ltp] Re: random number generator

Marcus Better linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:54:15 +0100


Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> The TPM chip has one,

Can it be used as a general purpose entropy source?

> and the WiFi card probably has one too. 

That is not likely to be exposed though. (Hmm, maybe there is a way to get
at the entropy without sending frames out the air?)