Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] random.c bugfix | Date | Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:15:33 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com> said:
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> (*) I don't know enough about the hash functions to know how to add a > few odd bytes into the store in a useful and safe way. We don't > really want to discard them either - think if a user-space random > daemon on an otherwise entropy-free system only writes one byte at > a time...
I'm no expert either, but padding with anything (zeroes?) to get the right length should be safe, no? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand Usuario #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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