Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 09:09:55 -0700 From: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: FreeBSD Security Team <secteam@freebsd.org>, Mark R V Murray <mark@grondar.org>, FreeBSD-arch Arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: random(4) plugin infrastructure for mulitple RNG in a modular fashion Message-ID: <20130906160955.A34385807E@chaos.jnpr.net> In-Reply-To: <FE4A207E-9F5E-4782-8561-CF5BD08C3A8B@bsdimp.com> References: <20130816002625.GE76666@x96.org> <9B274F48-0C88-4117-BEAC-1A555772A3C5@grondar.org> <86a9kf733d.fsf@nine.des.no> <0C97B866-A169-4141-8368-AA7F5B5382F4@grondar.org> <861u5r71zi.fsf@nine.des.no> <892B11BD-396D-4F82-B97C-753F72CA494D@grondar.org> <86r4dr5j3p.fsf@nine.des.no> <4C1BD77C-8C6B-4044-9285-5978A3BC4B70@kientzle.com> <537622E1-F785-4BFA-B829-09DCDB484606@grondar.org> <932AB5CA-778E-438D-8FD3-8C0F29F3D117@kientzle.com> <20130823231808.GT94127@funkthat.com> <0ABD5A7F-D647-4958-92DB-79D277C9AE7C@grondar.org> <FE4A207E-9F5E-4782-8561-CF5BD08C3A8B@bsdimp.com>
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On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 09:46:57 -0600, Warner Losh writes: >Especially in light of the recent NSA revelations... I for one won't trust= > hardware random number generation... > >I find it interesting that earlier in the thread there was a desire by a ce= >rtain router company to fulfill the NSA's requirement that it use the rando= Be able to. I think we all prefer the idea of feeding entropy sources into a mixer like yarrow or even better fortuna.
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