Am Samstag, 18. Juni 2016, 10:44:08 schrieb Theodore Ts'o: Hi Theodore,
> > At the end of the day, with these devices you really badly need a > hardware RNG. We can't generate randomness out of thin air. The only > thing you really can do requires user space help, which is to generate > keys lazily, or as late as possible, so you can gather as much entropy > as you can --- and to feed in measurements from the WiFi (RSSI > measurements, MAC addresses seen, etc.) This won't help much if you > have an FBI van parked outside your house trying to carry out a > TEMPEST attack, but hopefully it provides some protection against a > remote attacker who isn't try to carry out an on-premises attack. All my measurements on such small systems like MIPS or smaller/older ARMs do not seem to support that statement :-) Ciao Stephan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
