From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 23 0:41:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF1F37BA2F; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 00:41:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA82698; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 00:41:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 00:41:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Mark Murray Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak In-Reply-To: <200007230731.JAA90585@grimreaper.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Mark Murray wrote: > By your own admission, the old system was bad; yet you still want > ${it}? You'd like to see a programmer with less experience than > Schneier come up with a more secure algorithm than him? The old implementation was bad. The class of algorithm is not, as long as you are conservative about your entropy estimates. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message