On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 10:05:55AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Anyway, back to the long-suffering [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
;)
> >> something? Because it makes zero difference, and reduces the code
> >> size and execution time. Which is obviously a Good Thing.)
>
> > It just bugged me when I wa
On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 11:10:33AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thank you for pointing out the paper; Appendix A is particularly
> interesting. And the [BST03] reference looks *really* nice! I haven't
> finished it yet, but based on what I've read so far, I'd like to
> *strongly* recommnd th
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 04:50:36PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> (And as for the endianness of the SHA-1, are you trying to imply
> something? Because it makes zero difference, and reduces the code
> size and execution time. Which is obviously a Good Thing.)
It just bugged me when I was read
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:42:16AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > Just to be clear, I don't remember it ever throwing entropy away, but
> > it hoards some for years, thereby making it effectively unavailable.
> > Any catastrophic reseeding solution has to hold back entropy for some
> > time.
>
>
Thanks for the post.
Waiting for 256bits of entropy before outputting data is a good goal. Problem
becomes how do you measure entropy in a reliable way? This had me lynched
last time I asked it so I'll stop right there.
Info-theoretic randomness is a strong desire of some/many users, and they t
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 05:09:39PM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 07:43:37PM -0400, Jean-Luc Cooke wrote:
> > Ahh. Thanks Herbert.
> >
> > Matt,
> >
> > Any insight on how to test syn cookies and the other network stuff in
> > random
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 01:52:14PM +1000, David McCullough wrote:
>
> Jivin Jeff Garzik lays it down ...
> ...
> > >If kernelspace can assist and driver _knows_ in advance that data
> > >produced is cryptographically strong, why not allow it directly
> > >access pools?
> >
> > A kernel driver can
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 09:39:21PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Well when you get 55mb/s from /dev/random please get back to me.
I will add you to my list for notification of Fortuna Patch to /dev/random
(/dev/urandom)
JLC
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 06:43:49PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Consider what an RNG does: spews garbage.
>
> In practical applications, you -do not- want to dedicate the machine to
> spewing garbage. The vast majority of users would prefer to use their
> machines for real stuff. Thus, "extr
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 07:48:18AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> If you want to add entropy to the kernel entropy pool from hardware RNG,
> you should use the userland daemon, which detects non-random (broken)
> hardware and provides throttling, so that RNG data collection does not
> consume 100%
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