Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Dec 2007 12:02:37 -0600 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much? |
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:55:02PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > cryptographically strong stream it'll provide when /dev/random is > > tapped? In principle, this'd leave more entropy available for > > applications that really need it, especially on platforms that don't > > generate a lot of entropy in the first place (servers). > > > As reported about a month ago, the evidence is that the /dev/random > stream is not cryptographically strong. Collecting uuids generated from > the kernel uuid random generator from the random generator in the kernel > shows abnormal patterns of duplicates.
Pointer, please.
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