On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:34:40AM +0100, Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
> I suspect that it's aimed at link-layer encryption. In other words,
> where the ISP/telco runs one end of the encryption themselves, but the
> most convenient point to tap happens to be on the encrypted part of the
> link.
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 10:16:27AM -0700, Carl Ellison wrote:
> I'm told that the LINUX 2.4 kernel comes with the RNG driver
> built-in, but I haven't tried that.
It works almost out of box, kernel detects the chip and if you have the
necessary device file created (character 10,183 AFAIK) you ca
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:44:57PM -0700, Bram Cohen wrote:
> > What is important, it *doesn't* feed the built-in Linux kernel PRNG
> > available in /dev/urandom and /dev/random, so you have either to only
> > use the hardware generator or feed /dev/urandom yourself.
> That's so ... stupid. Why g
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 01:12:44AM -0700, Bram Cohen wrote:
> > not necessary in general case
> Since most applications reading /dev/random don't want random numbers
> anyway?
Here I meant exactly what you said about /dev/random religion. On the
other hand feeding the /dev/random with i810 durin
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 05:17:18PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> One of the things which I've always been worried about with the 810
> hardware random number generators in general is how to protect against
> their failing silently. My original design intention here was that
> this be done in a us
against advice of the expert
comission created by the Parliament itself (sic!) and agains the EU
recommendations. So we have the law enacted, but everyone is expecting
that to be changed soon to become usable, and definitely to make it
compliant with EU law.
--
Pawel K
