From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 8 14:25:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6558316A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:25:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DA1843D5A for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:25:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Mar 2005 14:25:24 -0000 Received: from p508BD0D1.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO lofi.dyndns.org) (80.139.208.209) by mail.gmx.net (mp003) with SMTP; 08 Mar 2005 15:25:24 +0100 X-Authenticated: #443188 Received: from kiste.my.domain (lofi@kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j28EPImb093671 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:25:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) From: Michael Nottebrock To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:25:11 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20050307130330.GX9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <422CCB5B.80300@fer.hr> <422CDEC1.4090000@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <422CDEC1.4090000@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart61760854.UR4kukTaF1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200503081525.16682.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 cc: Pawel Jakub Dawidek Subject: Re: New entropy source proposal. X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:25:26 -0000 --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--