From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random.c bugfix
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:15:33 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200110291615.f9TGFYYY010564@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com> of "Sun, 28 Oct 2001 22:37:54 PDT." <20011028223754.G1311@lynx.no>
Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com> said:
[...]
> (*) I don't know enough about the hash functions to know how to add a
> few odd bytes into the store in a useful and safe way. We don't
> really want to discard them either - think if a user-space random
> daemon on an otherwise entropy-free system only writes one byte at
> a time...
I'm no expert either, but padding with anything (zeroes?) to get the right
length should be safe, no?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-29 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-27 4:21 René Scharfe
2001-10-27 6:21 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-28 23:57 ` Horst von Brand
2001-10-29 5:37 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-29 16:15 ` Horst von Brand [this message]
2001-10-29 16:58 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-10-29 23:39 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-30 0:23 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-10-30 3:50 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-30 16:07 ` Theodore Tso
2001-10-31 6:19 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 14:42 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-10-30 4:49 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-29 5:46 ` [PATCH] MAJOR " Andreas Dilger
2001-10-27 6:35 ` [PATCH] " Robert Love
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