Hi,
Here's Paul and I adding some random bits into the pool...
Your comments are welcome!
Thanks,
Yaron
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: New Version Notification for
draft-sheffer-dhc-initial-random-00.txt
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 14:05:53 -0800
From: [email protected]
To: Yaron Sheffer <[email protected]>, Paul Hoffman
<[email protected]>, Paul E. Hoffman <[email protected]>
A new version of I-D, draft-sheffer-dhc-initial-random-00.txt
has been successfully submitted by Yaron Sheffer and posted to the
IETF repository.
Filename: draft-sheffer-dhc-initial-random
Revision: 00
Title: A DHCP Extension To Provide Initial Random Material
Creation date: 2013-12-05
Group: Individual Submission
Number of pages: 8
URL:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-sheffer-dhc-initial-random-00.txt
Status:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sheffer-dhc-initial-random
Htmlized:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sheffer-dhc-initial-random-00
Abstract:
Some network devices get little or no entropy from their underlying
operating systems when they are first started. As a result,
cryptographic applications started before there is sufficient entropy
in the operating system's pool can be initialized into a state that
can be exploited by an attacker. This document defines a DHCP
extension that can provide the operating system of a network device
with some initial randomness that can only be known by an attacker
who is on the same network segment as the device and its DHCP server.
The operating system can mix this random input into its random pool
early in the boot procedure and thus have more entropy available when
cryptographic applications start.
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