Re: gpg can't get random/entropy

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:20:24AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> It should be done in the envsys code, but the envsys code is, quite frankly,
> insane, and I haven't got the stomach for it.
> 
> I did it to a few drivers that were fairly easy.  Any temperature, voltage,
> or fan sensor is a good choice, and the timing of changes in gross power
> state (plugged/unplugged, etc.) can also be useful though those do not
> happen very often.

One more question: does it weaken the rnd(9) if the sources are correlated? 
For instance, a desktop system might have acpitz(4), coretemp(4), and
dbcool(4), and the temperature readings from these are without doubt highly
correlated.

- Jukka.