On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Steven Buehler wrote:
> This reminds me of something else I see come up ... anyone know what the
> module 'hw_random' is used for?
Looks like a hardware random number generator. Makes some kinds of
cryptography faster/better, IIRC.
> The kernel responds during boot that RNG is not available and then
> complains it can't install hw_random. No impact on system performance.
It falls back to software random number generation.
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