Ben Laurie writes: > > What??! Have you seen how Yarrow does its harvesting?? > > If you XOR into the as-yet-unharvested buffer, then appropriately > aligned repeated input makes the buffer zero.
There is an "if" and an "appropriately" in there. The entropy is estimated as Zero anyway, in spite of getting "free" TSC jitter, and if this is an attack, the system is screwed to begin with. M -- Mark R V Murray Cert APS(Open) Dip Phys(Open) BSc Open(Open) BSc(Hons)(Open) Pi: 132511160 _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
