On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:18:11PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 12:41:25PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > While debugging Exim4's GnuTLS interface, I recently found out that > > reading from /dev/urandom depletes entropy as much as reading from > > /dev/random would. This has somehow surprised me since I have always > > believed that /dev/urandom has lower quality entropy than /dev/random, > > but lots of it. > > man 4 random
Thanks for this pointer, I was not aware of the documentation. After reading this thread and the docs, I am now convinced that GnuTLS should seed a PRNG from /dev/(u)random instead of using the entropy directly. I will go filing a bug against GnuTLS. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 3221 2323190 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
