Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:45:15 -0800 (PST) | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: Intel 810 Random Number Generator |
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On 24-Jan-00 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Either you trust RNG or you don't. There is no middle ground. > > If you do not trust RNG, then using it as a /dev/random entropy source > is pointless. Why introduce theoretically non-random entropy to the > /dev/random pool?
Sure there's middle ground. If you don't trust it and 8 bits only has the entropy of 4 random bits, then its useless as key material, but quite good to throw into the /dev/random pool. /dev/random's entropy estimate may be wrong, but that's not a disaster given the robustness of its mixing algorithms.
J
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