On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:14:19AM -0400, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > One small point that still bothers me: > > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:22:18AM +0300, Michael Vasiliev wrote: > > > For the less security aware, there is the kernel support for hardware > > generators on the motherboard in the current kernel that is about as hard > > to > > get as running "make menuconfig" and enabling an option. (Well, maybe they > > miss it because they analyze the kernel source snapshot of December 2004, > > can > > anyone confirm?) > > Will that work on every motherboard? On every architecture?
No, it depends on the existence of the HW RNG on a given board. > Anyway, has there been any discussion of their claims after the article > was published but before it made it to the press? Two monthes is a long > time. I also read somewhere that the authors claimed that they have > brought the problems to the attention of kernel developers but nothing > was done. > > Anybody with more information? I discussed this paper with Matt Mackall, the Linux /dev/random maintainer, a while ago. As far as I can recall, he thought most of the claims were pretty dated (i.e., known). He also thought there was one interesting bit, but we didn't get a chance to discuss it further. Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
