Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:10:11 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@cryptosphere.com> To: Panagiotis Astithas <past@noc.ntua.gr> Cc: James Adams <seventyforty@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: SSL on Java 1.4.1 native port Message-ID: <20031002111011.GC13305@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3F7C0299.1000001@noc.ntua.gr> References: <Law14-F63x4FR0rmTIV00003acd@hotmail.com> <3F7C0299.1000001@noc.ntua.gr>
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On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:48:57PM +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
> I' ve had similar symptoms using SSL+Tomcat and I overcame them using=20
> rndcontrol to put some more interrupts (ethernet & clock, IIRC) to seed=
=20
> the PRNG.
Using the clock interrupt won't introduce any randomness into the
PRNG... The randomness that is derived from interrupts comes out of
the unpredictability of the time gap between them. That obviously
doesn't apply to the clock interrupt.
Cheers,
Matthew
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