Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:25:11 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Cc: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New entropy source proposal. Message-ID: <200503081525.16682.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <422CDEC1.4090000@mac.com> References: <20050307130330.GX9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <422CCB5B.80300@fer.hr> <422CDEC1.4090000@mac.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tuesday, 8. March 2005 00:07, Chuck Swiger wrote: > [ BTW, thanks, Pawel, this looks like a neat idea, even if it may not be > useable for all machines... ] The idea stems from the days when Noiseblasters where the peak of digital audio for PCs... it's rather sad that now, years later, there's tendencially worse hardware being used as part of mobo-chipsets and recording noise is still easier than recording an actual signal. In an ideal world, this idea wouldn't work. :-\ FWIW, following the general idea of 'static makes good entropy', bktr(4) could be used as an entropy source as well. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCLbXMXhc68WspdLARAkJWAJ0UYSXovZeuBeznYRBsTumseyVS2wCfbC4E EbiTIbIdU30tbwokL5quiWE= =ixVE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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