Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Dec 2000 18:58:07 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: /dev/random: really secure? |
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Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <20001218213801.A19903@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> you wrote: > > A potential weakness. The entropy estimator can be manipulated by > > feeding data which looks random to the estimator, but which is in fact > > not random at all. > > That's why feeding randomness is a priveledgedoperation.
I was referring to randomness influenced externally, e.g. network packet timing, hard disk timing by choice of which http requests, etc.
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