Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-06 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: > If someone is really concerned about NSA knowing their random seed through > Intel's hardware implementation - can't these few people add hardware RNG's > to their sources? > (one ref: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_hardware_rand

Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-05 Thread Amos Shapira
gt; On 3 January 2013 11:42, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Nadav Har'El >>> wrote: >>> > On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about "RNG (was: Re: >>> SSD drives)": >>> >> RDRAND

Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-05 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
gt; wrote: >> > On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about "RNG (was: Re: SSD >> drives)": >> >> RDRAND is also a PRNG, reseeded at most once every 1022 calls, way >> >> faster than /dev/urandom (they state 500MiB per second), and you d

Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-05 Thread Amos Shapira
013 11:42, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Nadav Har'El > wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about "RNG (was: Re: SSD > drives)": > >> RDRAND is also a PRNG, reseeded at most once every 1022 calls, way > >> f

Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-03 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about "RNG (was: Re: SSD > drives)": >> RDRAND is also a PRNG, reseeded at most once every 1022 calls, way >> faster than /dev/urandom (they state 500MiB per se

Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Elazar Leibovich wrote about "Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)": > If you're a gateway that does SSL (and thus need to do many kex)? Like F5 This doesn't (I think) explain why you would need to do 100 million each se

Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-03 Thread Elazar Leibovich
If you're a gateway that does SSL (and thus need to do many kex)? Like F5 On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about "RNG (was: Re: SSD > drives)": > > RDRAND is also a PRNG, reseeded at most once

Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about "RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)": > RDRAND is also a PRNG, reseeded at most once every 1022 calls, way > faster than /dev/urandom (they state 500MiB per second), and you do not > have its source code... Can anyone give me an exam

RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-03 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 11:57:01AM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Baruch Siach wrote: > > Hi Oleg, > > > > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:40:31AM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:46 AM, shimi wrote: > >> > I really don't think so. SSDs (IM