Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:57:03 +0100 | From | Alex Bligh - linux-kernel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] let Net Devices feed Entropy, updated (1/2) |
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> The device get's powerd up at a random time for the attacker. > That's entierly sufficient if you assume that your checksum function > f(i) hat the property that there is no function g, where we have > f(i+1)=g(f(i)), where g has a polynomial order over the time domain. > i is unknown for the attacker.
So, your argument is that there is no point in all this entropy collection anyway. So if everything is hunky dory, why have /dev/random block under such a circumstance? (which was the original poster's problem).
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