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On 25/03/2010 17:50, pageexec@××××××××.hu wrote: |
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> On 25 Mar 2010 at 13:10, Rob Kendrick wrote: |
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>> it goes to extraordinary lengths to make sure the entropy that is |
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>> injected into your pool can't be sniffed before it gets there, |
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> out of curiosity, what's that mean exactly? |
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I believe that the random numbers are encrypted out of the device? I |
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say that because when you start up the userspace daemon you tell it a |
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long random number supplied with the device. I assume this is designed |
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to make sure that some local process can't sniff the entropy (over the |
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USB bus, or whatever) before it's added to the kernel pool? |
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Although this seems like a basic feature for an entropy source, it |
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wasn't particularly a feature I was looking for. From my point of view |
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it just seemed like a cheap plentiful entropy source which works pretty |
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much out of the box just by plugging in... |
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Cheers |
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Ed W |
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