Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak

[David Scheidt]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Mark Murray wrote:

:
:Sure; we neet to be appropriately paranoid about that, but let's not
:get ridiculous. The seed file could certainly use some decent protection,
:but unfortunately, PC architectures don't come with SIMcards or the like.
:

Is it possible to combine the state of the disk based seed with some other
source of real entropy?  That would redudce the risk of having someone  read
your disks while the system is shutdown.


David



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