From: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Allow net devices to contribute to /dev/random
Date: 01 Oct 2001 11:52:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tgadzbr8kq.fsf@mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1001461026.9352.156.camel@phantasy> <9or70g$i59$1@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9or70g$i59$1@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu> (daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu's message of "26 Sep 2001 00:20:32 GMT")
daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) writes:
> Incrementing the entropy counter based on externally observable
> values is dangerous.
How do you want to collect any entropy with such a requirement in
place? Computers tend to send out a lot of information on the air.
BTW, I still think that the entropy estimate for mouse movements is
much too high. And the compression function used probably doesn't
have the intended property.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-01 9:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-25 23:36 Robert Love
2001-09-26 0:20 ` David Wagner
2001-10-01 9:52 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2001-10-01 16:59 ` /dev/random entropy calculations broken? Andreas Dilger
2001-10-01 21:55 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-10-01 22:43 ` antirez
2001-10-02 7:51 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-02 8:10 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-02 15:37 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-10-02 21:02 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-02 21:29 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-10-02 22:28 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-19 22:59 ` [PATCH] " Andreas Dilger
2001-10-21 5:05 ` Robert Love
2001-09-26 0:52 ` [PATCH][RFC] Allow net devices to contribute to /dev/random Robert Love
2001-09-26 1:36 ` David Wagner
2001-09-26 22:55 ` Gordon Oliver
2001-09-26 23:06 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2001-09-26 15:49 ` dean gaudet
2001-09-26 17:00 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-10-01 14:43 ` Pavel Machek
2001-10-01 21:33 ` Robert Love
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