Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 21:00:26 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>, "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Message-ID: <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKAEGBJMAA.davids@webmaster.com> In-Reply-To: <3973B66C.D6BD5BFD@vangelderen.org>
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> > Predicting the clock's offset from reality and the two way path to > > the server of choice is impossible, plus if people enable authentication > > later on the packets will be choke full of high-quality entropy. > > Please quantify 'impossible'. Impossible as in cannot be done. The offset between, for example, the processor clock and the NIC clock is unpredictable. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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