Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Aug 2002 21:53:46 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] (0/4) Entropy accounting fixes |
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On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > > But it will get data of _equal quality_ to the current approach from > /dev/urandom.
So what?
If you make /dev/random useless ("but you can use /dev/urandom instead") then we should not have it.
> > Are you seriously trying to say that a TSC running at a gigahertz cannot > > be considered to contain any random information just because you think you > > can time the network activity so well from the outside? > > Yes. The clock of interest is the PCI bus clock, which is not terribly > fast next to a gigabit network analyzer.
Be realistic. This is what I ask of you. We want _real_world_ security, not a completely made-up-example-for-the-NSA-that-is-useless-to-anybody- else.
All your arguments seem to boil down to "people shouldn't use /dev/random at all, they should use /dev/urandom".
Which is just ridiculous.
Linus
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