Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Sep 2013 18:23:09 -0400 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: TPMs and random numbers |
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On Thu, 12 September 2013 16:51:15 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > Supposedly, the Linux entropy pool has the property that mixing in > even actively malicious data is no worse than not mixing in anything > at all.
It is worse in three ways: - it costs performance, - it may create a false sense of safety and - it actively does harm if we credit it as entropy.
How much weight you assign to each of those is up to you. So long as we don't credit any of it as entropy, I am not too adverse to mixing it in. But I can equally see benefit in burning the bridges.
Jörn
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