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Re: [Cryptography] [RNG] /dev/random initialisation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Leichter)
Thu Oct 31 16:04:12 2013
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From: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>
In-Reply-To: <52729D58.1090705@borg.org>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:18:40 -0400
To: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
Cc: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>, cryptography@metzdowd.com,
jamesd@echeque.com
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Jeez, don't people recognize smileys any more?
-- Jerry :-)
On Oct 31, 2013, at 2:11 PM, Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org> wrote:
> 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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