[PATCH 14/14] random: target giant reseeds, to be conservative

2013-12-14 Thread Greg Price
A 128-bit seed provides reasonable security. We don't consider ourselves initialized until we get a seed which we estimate has entropy min_reseed_bits, by default 128. Our entropy estimates are generally conservative (see e.g. the empirical analysis in http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/251.pdf), but

[PATCH 14/14] random: target giant reseeds, to be conservative

2013-12-14 Thread Greg Price
A 128-bit seed provides reasonable security. We don't consider ourselves initialized until we get a seed which we estimate has entropy min_reseed_bits, by default 128. Our entropy estimates are generally conservative (see e.g. the empirical analysis in http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/251.pdf), but