Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:22:17 +0100 From: Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org> To: Ben Laurie <benl@freebsd.org> Cc: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>, Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r239569 - head/etc/rc.d Message-ID: <E1TCbSz-0007CJ-BI@groundzero.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <CAG5KPzzRxzVX-%2B9fYjRdqjY-wScbM6AA7GYtLmktgMG0Zg8iyQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <50453686.9090100@FreeBSD.org> <20120911082309.GD72584@dragon.NUXI.org> <504F0687.7020309@FreeBSD.org> <201209121628.18088.jhb@freebsd.org> <5050F477.8060409@FreeBSD.org> <20120912213141.GI14077@x96.org> <20120913052431.GA15052@dragon.NUXI.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209131258210.13080@ai.fobar.qr> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209141336170.13080@ai.fobar.qr> <E1TCXN0-000NFT-7I@groundzero.grondar.org> <CAG5KPzwOdCkybj3D5uic1KC-pwW-pewgsrqrXg60f5SJjtzYPw@mail.gmail.com> <E1TCbDG-0002Hz-9D@groundzero.grondar.org> <CAG5KPzzRxzVX-%2B9fYjRdqjY-wScbM6AA7GYtLmktgMG0Zg8iyQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Ben Laurie writes: > > What??! Have you seen how Yarrow does its harvesting?? > > If you XOR into the as-yet-unharvested buffer, then appropriately > aligned repeated input makes the buffer zero. There is an "if" and an "appropriately" in there. The entropy is estimated as Zero anyway, in spite of getting "free" TSC jitter, and if this is an attack, the system is screwed to begin with. M -- Mark R V Murray Cert APS(Open) Dip Phys(Open) BSc Open(Open) BSc(Hons)(Open) Pi: 132511160
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