On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Dan Kaminsky <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Ben Laurie <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Dan Kaminsky <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Ben Laurie <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Dan Kaminsky <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > entropy gathering has gotten *worse* (via abandonment of interrupts), >> >> > not >> >> > better. >> >> >> >> Entropy gathering in _one particular OS_. Credit where its due, please. >> > >> > >> > My understanding is that bad keys were detected on more than just Linux, >> > which implies starvation on everything on everything not out of Redmond. >> > >> > What interesting approaches are you aware of that deserve credit? Not a >> > rhetorical question, I'm genuinely curious. >> >> I was referring to the abandonment of interrupts in Linux. You think >> that other OSes have got worse at entropy gathering? And when did >> "more than Linux" start implying "not Windows"? > > > My assumption is that the other Unixes weren't looking at interrupt timing > to begin with, i.e. they've always been as starved for entropy as Linux > eventually became.
Well, you know what they say about assumptions. > That being said, does VXWorks even *have* an OS provided > strong random number generator? Don't know, don't care. > Windows has CryptGenRandom, which AFAIK doesn't block, and survives > everything but VM suspend/restore. FreeBSD also doesn't block. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
