Theo de Raadt <deraadt <at> cvs.openbsd.org> writes:

> >Having no interrupt (and such) entropy means less entropy.
> >
> >>From other hand, there are lot of speculations about some
> >hardware entropy sources are suspected (proven?) bad (or
> >intentionally hijacked?).
> >
> >So question here is, does moving random generation closer
> >to hardware paves a way to more predictable numbers?
> 
> It is clear you don't understand the code that was commited.

You're right. Now I see: the code in question tries to XOR
*over* hardware randomness.

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