Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:31:35 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yarrow's Counter Message-ID: <20080420183135.78b8c710@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <djKnblBB0JYTUSj%2BtadwNWUolSw@EEu6nkWAZTlxOp7ENdKMY8AImHg> References: <20080419175655.51a37bb2@gumby.homeunix.com.> <djKnblBB0JYTUSj%2BtadwNWUolSw@EEu6nkWAZTlxOp7ENdKMY8AImHg>
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On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:30:23 +0400 Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru> wrote: > I would not do it without consultations with Yarrow's creators: OK, I didn't realise it was actually specified, I thought it an implementation detail. > this modification seems not to help anything, It possibly doesn't help with an attack against Yarrow itself, but it means that 512 bits of entropy, rather than 256 bits, can be read-out from /dev/random.
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