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Polish README a bit.
authorJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Thu, 2 Aug 2012 18:55:47 +0000 (14:55 -0400)
committerJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Thu, 2 Aug 2012 18:55:47 +0000 (14:55 -0400)
README

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 This is a random number generator daemon.
 
-It monitors a hardware random number generator, and supplies entropy from that
-to the system /dev/random machinery.
+It monitors a hardware random number generator, and supplies entropy
+from that to the system kernel's /dev/random machinery.
+
+It is hoped that future contributions will enable entropy gathering
+from other sources, such as audio hardware or video hardware or CPU
+instruction pointers, to provide entropy even in cases where a true
+hardware RNG is not present.
 
 Home page:
        http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/