On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 11:53 +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote: > 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 > ;-)...
This is probably the *real* reason why Iran insists upon enriching its uranium. Geiger counters coupled to slightly sub-critical lumps of enriched uranium can be tuned to provide arbitrarily large amounts of entropy. And Iran needs to be able to export entropy to replace oil when its oil wells run dry. :-) -- You haven't made an impact on the world before you caused a Debian release to be named after Snufkin. My own blog is at http://tddpirate.livejournal.com/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html ================================================================= 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]
