/dev/random: really secure?
Quoted 3 lines · In article <[email protected]> you wrote:
A potential weakness. The entropy estimator can be manipulated by feeding data which looks random to the estimator, but which is in fact not random at all.
That's why feeding randomness is a priveledgedoperation.
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Bernd
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Quoted 6 lines · Bernd Eckenfels
Quoted 3 lines · In article <[email protected]> you wrote:
A potential weakness. The entropy estimator can be manipulated by feeding data which looks random to the estimator, but which is in fact not random at all.
That's why feeding randomness is a priveledgedoperation.
I was referring to randomness influenced externally, e.g. network packet timing, hard disk timing by choice of which http requests, etc.
-- Jamie
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