FYI - rp from another list that looked particularly interesting -- http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/ Split a packed field and I am there; parse a line of text and you will find me.
--- Begin Message ---Hi! The Tails project is currently investigating how best to help the Linux entropy pool with RNGs, such as haveged, rngd and ekeyd. The goal is not to "bolt questionable fixes onto the operating systems", and it would be very useful to get some recommendations. One important question is which daemon should *not* dominate the other. For example, many people apparently suggested that ekeyd should dominate haveged. Or would we be better of if we don't ship one/some of these at all? (Cf. the tickets below.) Keep in mind that a live system will have to work in various hardware configurations. Also, specifically in Tails, the entropy pool seed will first have to get persisted in some form (https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/7675) and a good source of randomness is vital for some of the use cases of the system. My question here is not about how randomness generation should be implemented in Linux, but rather very concretely How should a (Debian based) live system use the tools that are available right now? An answers to this questions will probably be interesting not just for the Tails project but also for other live systems and for systems designed for virtual machines. Any input, and especially concrete recommendations will be much appreciated! [ Specifically for Tails the relevant tickets to look at are https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5650 https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/7102 and the related issues listed there. ] Cheers! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Randomness generation" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/randomness-generation. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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