On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 07:51, Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsaloli.t...@gmail.com>wrote:
> What is entropy here and how it is computed? Are both low and high > entropy "bad"? Or is low entropy good, high entropy bad? > Low entropy is bad (not "bad" but bad, for security reasons). Entropy is basically how much "randomness" is available, which is very important for cryptographic systems -- such as SSL, SSH, and security in cfengine. You tend to get low entropy on server systems w/out keyboard and mouse to take entropy from. For further reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(computing) helps. -- Jerome Baum tel +49-1578-8434336 email jer...@jeromebaum.com -- PGP: A0E4 B2D4 94E6 20EE 85BA E45B 63E4 2BD8 C58C 753A PGP: 2C23 EBFF DF1A 840D 2351 F5F5 F25B A03F 2152 36DA
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