Re: Entropy Pool Contents

2006-11-28 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2006-11-28 19:42, Phillip Susi wrote: > what good does a non root user do by writing to random? If it > does not increase the entropy estimate, and it may not actually increase > the entropy, why bother allowing it? It is not guaranteed to actually increase the entropy, but it might. And in c

Re: Entropy Pool Contents

2006-11-28 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2006-11-27 23:52, Kyle Moffett wrote: > Actually, our current /dev/random implementation is secure even if the > cryptographic algorithms can be broken under traditional circumstances. This is far from obvious, and in my opinion incorrect. David explained this very well in his follow-up. Other