Damn,

Need to eat me some brain-food.

JLC

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 05:53:15PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 04:27:07PM -0400, Jean-Luc Cooke wrote:
> > 
> > Here's patch v2.1.2 that waits at least 0.1 sec before reseeding for
> > non-blocking reads to alleviate Ted's concern wrt waiting for reseeds.
> 
> You didn't include the patch, and in any case, you'll probably want to
> probably want to do it for both blocking as well as non-blocking
> reads.  And keep in mind, it's not *my* concerns, but it's Neil
> Ferguson and Bruce Schneier's concerns.  After all, if you're going to
> call it Fortuna, you might as well be faithful to their design,
> especially since if you don't, you're leaving it to be utterly
> vulnerable to this state extension attack they are so worried about.
> 
> 						- Ted
> _______________________________________________
> 
> Subscription: http://lists.logix.cz/mailman/listinfo/cryptoapi
> List archive: http://lists.logix.cz/pipermail/cryptoapi