On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:33:11PM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:01 PM, James A. Donald <jam...@echeque.com> wrote: > > At startup, likely to be short of entropy. > > > > > If /dev/urandom seeded at startup, and then seeded no further, bad, but not > > very bad. > > > > If /dev/urandom seeded at startup from /dev/random, then should block at > > startup. > > > > If /dev/urandom never blocks, bad. Should block at startup waiting to > > receive 160 bits from /dev/random, and never block again. > > > > I don't follow this - I understand why lack of entropy should block > urandom but, why shouldn't it block on a running system that > <low_bound?
Please explain what it means, exactly, to reduce the amount of entropy in the system in question. Emphasis on "exactly". Thor _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
