Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Aug 2001 11:33:19 -0400 (EDT) | From | Rob Radez <> | Subject | Re: /dev/random in 2.4.6 |
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On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Theodore Tso wrote:
> The bottom line is it really depends on how paranoid you want to be, > and how much and how closely you want /dev/random to reliably replace > a true hardware random number generator which relies on some physical > process (by measuring quantum noise using a noise diode, or by > measuring radioactive decay). For most purposes, and against most > adversaries, it's probably acceptable to depend on network interrupts, > even if the entropy estimator may be overestimating things.
Not picking on you Ted, but in the end, people have to remember this is a configurable option. If you don't want it, don't enable it. In fact, I believe it's set to be off by default, so just have a Configure.help entry that says "Don't enable unless you really know what you're doing."
-Rob Radez
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