Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 05:53:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 05:53:01 -0400 Received: from mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de ([129.69.1.226]:33296 "EHLO mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 05:52:48 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Allow net devices to contribute to /dev/random In-Reply-To: <1001461026.9352.156.camel@phantasy> <9or70g$i59$1@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu> From: Florian Weimer Date: 01 Oct 2001 11:52:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: <9or70g$i59$1@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu> (daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu's message of "26 Sep 2001 00:20:32 GMT") Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu (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. -- Florian Weimer Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE University of Stuttgart http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/ RUS-CERT +49-711-685-5973/fax +49-711-685-5898 - 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/