Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:24:18 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Message-ID: <672.963815058@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:07:43 %2B0200." <200007170607.IAA05866@grimreaper.grondar.za>
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In message <200007170607.IAA05866@grimreaper.grondar.za>, Mark Murray writes: >getnanotime() is already extensively used; I looked at that use, but as far as I can tell, it is only used as a flag at this time, the bits returned by getnanotime() does not end up in the entropy pool ? I'm not dissatisfied about that btw, the output from getnanotime() is not very random at all, unless you dive into the timecounter code to find out what the parameters are. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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