Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak

[Alex Kapranoff]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 05:08:35PM +0200, Leif Neland wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> > On 17-Jul-00 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > > NTP is the perfect way to gather entropy at bootup!
> > 
> >         Only if in reach of an NTP server ?
> > 
> If you can't reach a NTP server, you are not connected to the internet. In
> that case you don't need to worry so much about security...

  Flawed logic. That's cryptography. It's about information
protection. And you of course know that about 80% of computer crimes
are commited by local cow orkers in a LAN environment behind a twenty
five firewalls, proxies and the like.

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