Yo Mark! On Wed, 04 Jan 2017 03:53:02 +0000 Mark Atwood <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Why does ntpkeygen pass a low entropy ignored seed into
> SystemRandom?
Its a start. I guess I could grab something from /dev/random to
add to the mix.
> It's ignored, so it doesn't matter, but it's the type
> of error which concerns me."
I'm reading the man page, it is NOT ignored, just not ideal.
https://docs.python.org/2/library/random.html
This relates to a frequently reocurring discussion on LKM. The Linux
kernel uses a number of low entropy sources to make /dev/random.
The feeling is that adding any small amount entropy can not hurt and
might help. Entropy tends to be additive.
More worrying to me is that it is a wrapper on os.urandom(), not os.random()
Lemme see if I can sex it up a bit.
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