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On 25 Mar 2010 at 20:12, Rob Kendrick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:50:23 +0200 |
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> pageexec@××××××××.hu 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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> That somebody with a few probes and a 50 quid USB logic analyser can't |
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> capture the entropy that was delivered to the system. (One of the |
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> target markets is installation in shared co-location facilities.) |
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do they also protect against impersonation? from your other answers |
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i infer that there's some (mutual?) authentication between the device |
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and the kernel, so it should be possible ;). |
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