Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 19:34:44 +0100 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/random Makefile src/sys/dev/random harvest.c hash.c hash.h nehemiah.c nehemiah.h probe.c randomdev.c randomdev.h randomdev_soft.c randomdev_soft.h yar Message-ID: <200404091834.i39IYi0w060497@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Apr 2004 10:38:22 PDT." <20040409103618.A48723@root.org>
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Nate Lawson writes: > This is a huge mistake. At the very minimum, I take it you never read our > paper. > > http://www.cryptography.com/resources/whitepapers/index.html Actually, I have. I read it again, now, to be sure. Nothing it says suggests that what I did here is a "huge mistake". Nearest I get is the suggestion that the output from the on-chip RNG is used as a source for a hash function (like Yarrow). I feel that is overkill, and that the output of the on-chip RNG is sufficient. M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH
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