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Re: [Cryptography] [RNG] /dev/random initialisation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sat Nov 2 12:22:24 2013
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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 12:48:13 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
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On 2013-10-31 20:49, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> Ah, so like FIPS, Linux only accepts "real" entropy from
> "authenticated" sources. :-)
The question is, who shall we trust? Those approved by the NSA, or
those approved by the owner of the computer?
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