Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 23:35:40 +0100 From: Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.ru>, Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, markm@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTENTION: Initial state of random pool Message-ID: <199703272235.XAA14106@internal-mail.systemics.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Mar 1997 21:41:38 %2B0200." <199703271941.VAA07001@grackle.grondar.za>
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Mark Murray wrote: > Right now, I believe that the hard-earned randomness may be being used for > trivial jobs. I do believe, though, that much more entropy can be provided. Aha! The solution may be to allow the hard-earned randomness to be used for trivial jobs, by using it only as a seed for a cryptographically secure random sequence generator (e.g. RC4). Comments? Gary
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