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From: Rob Kendrick <rjek@××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Bought an "entropy-key" - very happy
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:12:54
Message-Id: 20100325201208.2d213cad@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Bought an "entropy-key" - very happy by pageexec@freemail.hu
1 On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:50:23 +0200
2 pageexec@××××××××.hu wrote:
3
4 > > it goes to extraordinary lengths to make sure the entropy that is
5 > > injected into your pool can't be sniffed before it gets there,
6 >
7 > out of curiosity, what's that mean exactly?
8
9 That somebody with a few probes and a 50 quid USB logic analyser can't
10 capture the entropy that was delivered to the system. (One of the
11 target markets is installation in shared co-location facilities.)
12
13 B.

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