Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:40:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (2nd iteration) New /dev/(random|null|zero) - review, please Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006191338560.39028-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpsnu9u5yz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 19 Jun 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> But this is all guesses and gut feelings, and experience teaches us
> that guesses and gut feelings are often - if not always - wrong when
> it comes to crypto and randomness, so feel free to ignore me.
In this usage it won't matter, as long as the thermal generator is
"mostly" random (i.e. the entropy estimate of how much random data it
actually contains is approximately correct), because the bytes aren't used
directly but fed into the /dev/random entropy pool and hashed up, which
would tend to remove any signature.
Kris
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