Re: /dev/random: really secure?

[Jamie Lokier]

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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