Re: Entropy from net devices - keyboard & IDE just as 'bad' [was Re: [PATCH] let Net Devices feed Entropy, updated (1/2)]

From: David Wagner (daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 21 2001 - 13:29:36 EST


Alex Bligh - linux-kernel wrote:
>For clarity, I'm saying Robert's patch is GOOD, and those who are trying
>to point out what I consider to be extremely theoretical weakness it
>introduces into /dev/random (and then, only when config'd on), [...]

That's one place where we disagree. Over-estimating entropy is not a
theoretical weakness: this is something that real cryptographers get real
worried about. It's one of the easiest ways for a crypto system to fail.
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