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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--nextPart61760854.UR4kukTaF1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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=20 audio for PCs... it's rather sad that now, years later, there's tendenciall= y=20 worse hardware being used as part of mobo-chipsets and recording noise is=20 still easier than recording an actual signal. In an ideal world, this idea= =20 wouldn't work. :-\ =46WIW, following the general idea of 'static makes good entropy', bktr(4) = could=20 be used as an entropy source as well. =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart61760854.UR4kukTaF1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCLbXMXhc68WspdLARAkJWAJ0UYSXovZeuBeznYRBsTumseyVS2wCfbC4E EbiTIbIdU30tbwokL5quiWE= =ixVE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart61760854.UR4kukTaF1--
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