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From: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>
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Subject: Re: /dev/random: really secure?
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 04:41:15 +0100
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In article <20001218213801.A19903@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> you wrote:
> A potential weakness.  The entropy estimator can be manipulated by
> feeding data which looks random to the estimator, but which is in fact
> not random at all.

That's why feeding randomness is a priveledgedoperation.

Greetings
Bernd
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