Messages in this thread |  | | From | (David Wagner) | | Date | 21 Aug 2001 18:31:15 GMT |
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David Lang wrote: >so as I see this discussion it goes something like this. > >1. the entropy pool is not large enough on headless machines. >2. you don't want to use urandom as there are theoretical attacks against >it
If that's the concern, then I'm glad to say that I have very reassuring news for you. No attacks are known on /dev/urandom, not even theoretical ones.
(And no attack is known on SHA-1, not even a theoretical one.)
(Don't confuse a remote risk that someone might discover a theoretical attack on SHA-1 with knowledge that we already know of a theoretical attack on SHA-1.) - 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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