From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 30 10: 7: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from grimreaper.grondar.za (grimreaper.grondar.za [196.7.18.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1093E37B6BB; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 10:06:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA08976; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:07:01 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.za) Message-Id: <200007301707.TAA08976@grimreaper.grondar.za> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak References: In-Reply-To: ; from Brian Fundakowski Feldman "Sun, 30 Jul 2000 12:48:40 -0400." Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:07:01 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > How does entropy gathering at a high enough rate solve this > particularly? EG, by having it such that Yarrow state perturbations happen often enough that each read is "guaranteed" to be associated with at least one and preferably more. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message