[blazespin]

Lordy. Hyperbole much? There are cases where I am sure having access to a blocking source of entropy is interesting. Perhaps it has nothing to do with crypto. Maybe it's mathematical or scientific in nature. Who knows. But it's good to give developers an option and not cut off access to useful tools because you think they can't handle it.

[tptacek]

Would you care to lay out a scenario in which a scientific application might care about the decision that the Linux kernel RNG makes about entropy estimation? Place make sure your answer takes into account how the Linux entropy estimator actually works.