On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 08:33:20AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > BTW, note that it would be a polite thing for GnuTLS when it is > encrpyting data, which represents information which might not be > available to an adversary, and SHA1 hash it (out of paranoia) and feed > it to /dev/random. > > This won't give any "credits" to the random entropy counter, but to > the extent that is information that isn't available to the adversary, > it adds additional uncertainty to the random pool.
I have filed this as https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?106113 Thanks for suggesting. 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/
