From 697f8d0348a652593d195a13dd1067d9df911a82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:29:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] random32: seeding improvement The rationale is: * use u32 consistently * no need to do LCG on values from (better) get_random_bytes * use more data from get_random_bytes for secondary seeding * don't reduce state space on srandom32() * enforce state variable initialization restrictions Note: the second paper has a version of random32() with even longer period and a version of random64() if needed. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Reading git-format-patch failed