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Re: [Cryptography] /dev/random has issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Callas)
Fri Oct 18 12:40:58 2013
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From: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
In-Reply-To: <20131017212622.GB14512@thunk.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 09:34:12 -0700
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>, Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>,
John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>
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On Oct 17, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> Is the cryptography mailing list the best place to be having these
> discussions? There is the moderation delay, and I'm also not sure how
> eager the moderators are about having the mailing list taken over by
> people talking about code patches, etc., on this list. I wonder if we
> should create a separate mailing list, perhaps a
> linux-random@vger.kernel.org, and take the more technical discussions
> to that mailing list.
I say yes, this is a fine place, myself. How /dev/random, etc. work is at the core of lots of cryptography, from key generation to the appropriateness of whitening functions to real-world engineering, and at the end of the day, cryptography is an engineering discipline.
Jon
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