Why not use rtc or clk for randomness?

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, John Goodleaf wrote:

> -[irq], first finding a good irq by looking at vmstat -i. I was
> specifically cautioned against using the irqs associated with clk and
> rtc. Why is that? They have such wonderfully high rates. I'm sure using

The output of a clock is not very random.  Well there are some
exception like the one in our kitchen :-)

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