Using Yarrow in /dev/random

2000-09-11 Thread Pravir Chandra
etrospect, it seemed that I hadn't looked into the current state of incorporating crypto into the kernel. If anyone has any suggestions, comments, questions, please email. Also, does anyone have any complaints against incorporating a new /dev/random into the kernel? pravir chandra. Relia

Re: Using Yarrow in /dev/random

2000-09-12 Thread Pravir Chandra
umulator/generator combo will do nicely for /dev/urandom. i think overall this will improve the cryptographic strength of numbers you get from /dev/urandom and /dev/random will essentially be a portal for entropy. pravir chandra. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux

Re: Using Yarrow in /dev/random

2000-09-12 Thread Pravir Chandra
dev/random be essentially a gateway for entropy and /dev/urandom to be a cryptographically strong prng. i think this fits with yarrow, in that the accumulator can provide entropy and the generator can provide strong prn's. our plan was to keep the accumulator and one generator in the