From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc: Karel Kulhavy <clock@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /dev/random: really secure?
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:38:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001218213801.A19903@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001217225057.A8897@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKKEFEMIAA.davids@webmaster.com>
In-Reply-To: <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKKEFEMIAA.davids@webmaster.com>; from davids@webmaster.com on Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 04:18:31PM -0800
David Schwartz wrote:
> The code does its best to estimate how much actual entropy it is gathering.
A potential weakness. The entropy estimator can be manipulated by
feeding data which looks random to the estimator, but which is in fact
not random at all.
-- Jamie
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-18 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-17 21:50 /dev/random: really secure? Karel Kulhavy
2000-12-18 0:18 ` David Schwartz
2000-12-18 8:21 ` Karel Kulhavy
2000-12-18 20:38 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2000-12-18 21:33 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2000-12-18 22:15 ` Andreas Dilger
2000-12-19 9:27 ` Daniel Stone
2000-12-19 11:49 ` Kurt Garloff
2000-12-19 12:48 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-12-19 16:51 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2000-12-19 17:39 ` Pavel Machek
2000-12-18 21:58 ` David Schwartz
2000-12-18 8:49 ` David Feuer
2000-12-18 9:22 ` Martin Mares
2000-12-19 6:49 ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-12-20 3:41 Bernd Eckenfels
2000-12-20 17:58 ` Jamie Lokier
2000-12-20 3:49 Bernd Eckenfels
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