Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 18:33:42 -0700 From: Marcus Reid <marcus@blazingdot.com> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does /dev/random in virtual guests provide good random data? Message-ID: <20150714013342.GA79791@blazingdot.com> In-Reply-To: <20150713144630.32cd851a@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <55A2FB68.3070006@rawbw.com> <CCCC361E-70E1-4BA4-9765-65653F40DBC7@kientzle.com> <55A3763B.7010303@rawbw.com> <20150713144630.32cd851a@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 02:46:30PM +0100, RW via freebsd-hackers wrote: > FreeBSD uses Yarrow As of recently, -CURRENT uses Fortuna by default, which is the successor to Yarrow. It was also devised by Bruce Schneier (with Neils Ferguson). > , which was designed by Bruce Schneier, a professional cryptographer > who created the Blowfish cipher, the AES candidate Twofish and PGP. PGP was created by Phil Zimmermann, not Schneier. Marcus > Linux's /dev/random was designed by programmers; actually a lot of > them, its greatest problem is that it's a mess of patches from > amateurs.
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