From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, Eric Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>,
bloat-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: Preliminary results of using GPS to look for clock skew
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:15:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E7B6D48.2040205@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA93jw7ZazrQThf=yKWX6Att7XMj4zUeyHkDuu_E23xGXHqUvA@mail.gmail.com>
>
> One thing that surprised me of late is http://www.bufferbloat.net/issues/271
>
> while not related, surprises are the last thing we need as regards to time.
>
The decision to stop letting networking contribute to entropy goes back
a few years actually :)
In another context, also where running-out of entropy was a problem,
someone mentioned there are RNGs on USB keys that can be used to provide
randomness/entropy/whatnot. The one mentioned in that discussion was
the "Entropy Key" from these folks: http://www.entropykey.co.uk/
rick jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-22 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-21 23:02 Eric Raymond
2011-09-22 0:18 ` Dave Taht
2011-09-22 2:11 ` Eric Raymond
2011-09-22 2:24 ` Jonathan Morton
2011-09-22 2:29 ` Eric Raymond
2011-09-23 9:09 ` Jan Ceuleers
2011-09-23 9:38 ` Dave Taht
2011-09-23 12:10 ` Jan Ceuleers
2011-09-23 12:50 ` Rick
2011-09-24 14:50 ` Jan Ceuleers
2011-09-22 9:08 ` Dave Taht
2011-09-22 17:15 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2011-09-22 17:34 ` Dave Taht
2011-09-22 17:43 ` Rick Jones
2011-09-22 17:58 ` Dave Taht
2011-09-23 10:57 ` Aidan Williams
2011-09-23 10:10 ` Dave Taht
2011-09-23 9:09 ` Jan Ceuleers
2011-09-23 9:24 ` Jan Ceuleers
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