Re: depleting the random number generator

[Russell Nelson]

John Denker writes:
 > The bad part is that Whitney has already gobbled up quite a few
 > bits of entropy from /dev/random before the slightest bit of
 > authentication is attempted.

You're presuming that you're using the standard Linux version of
/dev/random.  You could quite easily write a driver for that serial
port white noise generator which was discussed earlier on this list.
Make it's operation compatible with /dev/random, and replace
/dev/random with a node pointing to your device.

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