On 27 July 2011 14:02, Per Jessen
Rob Davies wrote:
Presumably such would be widely available thanks to integrated audio, even on diskless installs.
Perhaps except on servers - none of mine have on-board sound.
Ok, so are your servers entropy starved or are there sufficient interrupts in practice? Would USB key type hardware be practical? Presumably your server boards are not budget models and operate in a controlled secure environment. Do you have (assuming you see entropy starvation and hardware solution impractical) objections to running haveged, making it poor choice? What else would be doable? The Fate entry I was thinking of mentioned networked diskless installations, which might need fair amount of entropy but receive less as network card contributed entropy has issues and they may have unused audio input. The timing unpredictability approach, appeared simpler to deploy, because it did not require hardware, yet seems less trusted as "real" hardware interrupts. I wondered if the audio based daemon might have a niche. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org