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Re: [Cryptography] [RNG] /dev/random initialisation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent Borg)
Thu Oct 31 16:03:30 2013
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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:11:36 -0400
From: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
To: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4250E653-9235-4BBA-B575-AB5436FE1733@lrw.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, jamesd@echeque.com
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On 10/31/2013 06:49 AM, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> Ah, so like FIPS, Linux only accepts "real" entropy from
> "authenticated" sources. :-)
Yes, but not centralized, approved, and documented with the NSA.
For example, at a low-credit rate, it includes a rather diffuse and hard
to characterize source: "interrupts".
-kb
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