Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262491AbVDPBEy (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:04:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262503AbVDPBEy (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:04:54 -0400 Received: from abraham.CS.Berkeley.EDU ([128.32.37.170]:15118 "EHLO abraham.cs.berkeley.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262491AbVDPBEx (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:04:53 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Newsgroups: isaac.lists.linux-kernel Subject: Re: Fortuna Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 01:02:53 +0000 (UTC) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: isaac Message-ID: References: <20050413234337.GE12263@certainkey.com> <20050414000939.GH3174@waste.org> <20050414002647.GG12263@certainkey.com> <20050414004435.GJ3174@waste.org> Reply-To: daw-usenet@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) NNTP-Posting-Host: taverner.cs.berkeley.edu X-Trace: abraham.cs.berkeley.edu 1113613374 32631 128.32.168.222 (16 Apr 2005 01:02:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 01:02:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 739 Lines: 12 Matt Mackall wrote: >While it may have some good properties, it lacks >some that random.c has, particularly robustness in the face of failure >of crypto primitives. It's probably not a big deal, because I'm not worried about the failure of standard crypto primitives, but-- Do you know of any analysis to back up the claim that /dev/random will be robust in the failure of crypto primitives? I have never seen anyone try to do such an analysis, but maybe you know of something that I don't. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/