Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:41:58 +0400 From: Alex Kapranoff <alex@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su> To: Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Message-ID: <20000717204157.A7583@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007171707130.54837-100000@arnold.neland.dk>; from leifn@neland.dk on Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 05:08:35PM %2B0200 References: <XFMail.000717151702.steveo@eircom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007171707130.54837-100000@arnold.neland.dk>
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On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 05:08:35PM +0200, Leif Neland wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > On 17-Jul-00 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > NTP is the perfect way to gather entropy at bootup! > > > > Only if in reach of an NTP server ? > > > If you can't reach a NTP server, you are not connected to the internet. In > that case you don't need to worry so much about security... Flawed logic. That's cryptography. It's about information protection. And you of course know that about 80% of computer crimes are commited by local cow orkers in a LAN environment behind a twenty five firewalls, proxies and the like. -- Alex Kapranoff, 2:50/383.20@fidonet, Voice: +7(0832)791845. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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