hw_random complains

[Anonymous]

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 20:37 +0100, Jan Kokoska wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 06:29 +0200, Johan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > While booting hw_random have several complaints.
>
> Your motherboard probably doesn't have the random number chip.
>
> > Kindly please what does this hw_random do?
>
> Provides truly random input to userland using a special device on
your
> motherboard, useful maybe on heavily loaded secure server (ssl,
https).
>
> > Should I be concerned?
>
> No.
>
> Regards,
> Jan
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Thanks for taking the time to answer all my questions.
Regards
--
Johan
Registered linux user #330034



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