On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Dan Kaminsky <[email protected]> wrote: >> > 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. > > > Smart people will come around and help correct them? :) > >> >> >> > That being said, does VXWorks even *have* an OS provided >> > strong random number generator? >> >> Don't know, don't care. > > > Why not? It carries your data.
Routers should not need strong randomness, at least the way the 'net works now, to carry my data... >> > Windows has CryptGenRandom, which AFAIK doesn't block, and survives >> > everything but VM suspend/restore. >> >> FreeBSD also doesn't block. > > > May I ask what FreeBSD's entropy sources are? It depends - device drivers can add entropy. It does include interrupt stuff, but not, by the looks of it, timing information, so I await the results of your experiments with interest (note, btw, I didn't have much to do with FreeBSD's /dev/random). _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
