Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] Allow net devices to contribute to /dev/random | From | Florian Weimer <> | Date | 01 Oct 2001 11:52:21 +0200 |
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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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