On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 10:06:38PM +0200, > Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > a message of 66 lines which said: > >> There are many parts in a typical PC that can feed a prng with >> non-deterministic data. Typical examples are the network card and >> sound card (mic etc), hard disks, memory accesses, interrupts, >> thermal sensors etc. > > Not all are equal. See RFC 4086 <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4086.txt> > for a discussion of why the hard disk is better than the network card.
Of course they are not. What I say is that the PRNG should be able to use them all at no cost. regards, Nikos _______________________________________________ Help-gnutls mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnutls
