On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 21:38 +0100, Jan Tulak wrote: > I'm also developing it (https://github.com/BroukPytlik/RdRand). > ReadMe still needs to be filled with reasonable texts, I have to copy it from > man pages (why write the same things twice). :-) > > About the security concerns... I have done some statistical testing of it > (PractRand, TestU01) and even after many terabytes on four machines it didn't > found anything suspicious. > So I would not used it directly for something important (closed things are > closed things, and with NSA paying to RSA for backdoors...), but for casual > usage or as one of more entropy sources (or as a seed for a CSPRNG) it can > work pretty well. > My package is including the C library and also a simple application usable by > users directly (i.e. usable in shell scripts) if they do not want to pull > data > from /dev/[u]random.
Hello and welcome. Some questions based on your description of rdrand. How would you expect someone to use this library? I mean if /dev/urandom is more portable why use the rdrand tool or library? Also how does your project relates to rng-tools that do use the hardware generator to feed /dev/random? regards, Nikos -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
