Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 13:11:34 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/random Makefile src/sys/dev/random harvest.c hash.c hash.h nehemiah.c nehemiah.h probe.c randomdev.c randomdev.h randomdev_soft.c randomdev_soft.h yar Message-ID: <8536.1081595494@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Apr 2004 09:54:36 BST." <200404100854.i3A8sa0w066414@grimreaper.grondar.org>
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In message <200404100854.i3A8sa0w066414@grimreaper.grondar.org>, Mark Murray wr ites: >If it is felt that further whitening of the VIA C3 RNG is needed, >then I believe that Yarrow would be overkill, and that a much smaller >hash function will be sufficient. How about we recognize that different users needs different levels of randomness ? Couldn't we provide at three levels of random bits: 1. "Random enough for games" 2. "Random enough for money" 3. "Random enough for lives" Would that be feasible ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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