From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 10 04:11:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24C3916A4CE; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 04:11:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896F943D4C; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 04:11:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i3ABBYSB008537; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 13:11:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: Mark Murray From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Apr 2004 09:54:36 BST." <200404100854.i3A8sa0w066414@grimreaper.grondar.org> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 13:11:34 +0200 Message-ID: <8536.1081595494@critter.freebsd.dk> cc: Bruce M Simpson cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: Nate Lawson 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 X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 11:11:40 -0000 In message <200404100854.i3A8sa0w066414@grimreaper.grondar.org>, Mark Murray wr ites: >If it is felt that further whitening of the VIA C3 RNG is needed, >then I believe that Yarrow would be overkill, and that a much smaller >hash function will be sufficient. How about we recognize that different users needs different levels of randomness ? Couldn't we provide at three levels of random bits: 1. "Random enough for games" 2. "Random enough for money" 3. "Random enough for lives" Would that be feasible ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.