At Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:18:33 -0800,
Stou Sandalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Considering that the security of most cryptographic systems rests on
> the quality of the rng, a half-assed solution is definitely not what i
> am after. ("Hey! you are the guy that wrote the rng for hurd, that let
> those hax0rs totally brutalize the world")The quality of my random translator should be pretty sound, given that it uses GnuPG's random pool. However, it may need to be extended a bit to poll entropy from a kernel device. > So there should be a separate entropy translator? That would actually > eliminate the issue of how to use hardware entropy generators > (including that stuff that supposedly comes on some of the Intel > boards/procs). The only biggish thing that's missing is a random device in gnumach which delivers entropy from the hardware (timing IRQ events, etc. It's not perfect, but the best thing you can get from standard PC hardware). Thanks, Marcus _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
