From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 30 10:28:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9844337B5F2; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 10:28:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 13:28:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman X-Sender: green@green.dyndns.org To: Mark Murray Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak In-Reply-To: <200007301707.TAA08976@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, 30 Jul 2000, Mark Murray wrote: > > 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. Can you give me an idea how this would work, at least with e.g. pseudocode annotation of the current code? I'm curious what you're going to change that will allow reseeeding while a read is in progress. > M > -- > Mark Murray > Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message