2001-10-01 09:53:11

by Florian Weimer

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Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Allow net devices to contribute to /dev/random

[email protected] (David Wagner) writes:

> Incrementing the entropy counter based on externally observable
> values is dangerous.

How do you want to collect any entropy with such a requirement in
place? Computers tend to send out a lot of information on the air.

BTW, I still think that the entropy estimate for mouse movements is
much too high. And the compression function used probably doesn't
have the intended property.

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