Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-06 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: If someone is really concerned about NSA knowing their random seed through Intel's hardware implementation - can't these few people add hardware RNG's to their sources? (one ref:

Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-05 Thread Amos Shapira
Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about RNG (was: Re: SSD drives): RDRAND is also a PRNG, reseeded at most once every 1022 calls, way faster than /dev/urandom (they state

Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-05 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
: On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about RNG (was: Re: SSD drives): RDRAND is also a PRNG, reseeded at most once every 1022 calls, way faster than /dev/urandom (they state 500MiB per second), and you do not have its source code... Can anyone give me an example of why on earth

Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-05 Thread Amos Shapira
: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about RNG (was: Re: SSD drives): RDRAND is also a PRNG, reseeded at most once every 1022 calls, way faster than /dev/urandom (they state 500MiB per second), and you

Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about RNG (was: Re: SSD drives): RDRAND is also a PRNG, reseeded at most once every 1022 calls, way faster than /dev/urandom (they state 500MiB per second), and you do not have its source code... Can anyone give me an example of why on earth

Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-03 Thread Elazar Leibovich
If you're a gateway that does SSL (and thus need to do many kex)? Like F5 On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.ilwrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about RNG (was: Re: SSD drives): RDRAND is also a PRNG, reseeded at most once every 1022 calls

Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Elazar Leibovich wrote about Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives): If you're a gateway that does SSL (and thus need to do many kex)? Like F5 This doesn't (I think) explain why you would need to do 100 million each second. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday

Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-03 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about RNG (was: Re: SSD drives): RDRAND is also a PRNG, reseeded at most once every 1022 calls, way faster than /dev/urandom (they state 500MiB per second), and you do