Collecting entropy from device_attach() times.

Mariusz Gromada mariusz.gromada at gmail.com
Tue Sep 25 09:36:33 UTC 2012


2012/9/25 Mariusz Gromada <mariusz.gromada at gmail.com>
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> Empirically, it seems to me that these numbers are actually unlikely
>> to be correlated with each other, but that has not been tested.
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> Another yes, you are right. We need much more data to check if we have a
> stochastic process consisted of independent random variables.
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Here we did some initial testing, mainly based on charts, which showed
typical noise in time. But again, it requires a formal proof.


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