On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 07:20:42AM +0200, Richard Levitte wrote: > Like I think I mentioned a few days ago, I'm currently on a conference. I'll > take this up in more depth later this week. > > I have a question, though... Kurt said at some point that all that was needed > on the VMS side was to collect data, the rest can be done elsewhere > (thankfully). However, I don't really understand what the collected data is > supposed to be. Just the same stream of bytes that I would feed the entropy > acquisition, or something else? Is the time delta between samples a factor in > this?
The API support getting data that has 1 bit of entropy per 128 bit received (DRBG_MINMAX_FACTOR). If it's worse than that, you might have to write your own extract method. A stream of bytes it just fine. I think the tme delta will really depend on your source. If it really changes all the time, it really doesn't matter much how fast you do it. But I think some (most?) of the variables don't change that often. Kurt _______________________________________________ openssl-project mailing list openssl-project@openssl.org https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-project
