Quoth Muli Ben-Yehuda: > The theory behind disabling entropy gathering from network sources is > that those can be affected (controlled?) by an attacker. There was a > long thread about this recently on lkml, see thread starting at > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114684809230875&w=2 for > both sides of the argument.
I pretty much agree with the theory, but Ami's query is correct - whence to get entropy in this case? In theory, by the by, disk access can ALSO be controlled to a degree (less than network, but still)... So - whence entropy? Shall we now start adding external devices via RS232 (some kind of multi-cascade motion detector ;-)... Marc -- ---MAV Marc A. Volovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Swiftouch, LTD +972-544-676764 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
