Re: [Cryptography] /dev/random is not robust

2013-10-14 Thread James A. Donald
On 2013-10-15 10:35, d...@deadhat.com wrote: http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/338.pdf No kidding. ___ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

Re: [Cryptography] "/dev/random is not robust"

2013-10-14 Thread John Gilmore
> http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/338.pdf I'll be the first to admit that I don't understand this paper. I'm just an engineer, not a mathematician. But it looks to me like the authors are academics, who create an imaginary construction method for a random number generator, then prove that /dev/rando

Re: [Cryptography] /dev/random is not robust

2013-10-14 Thread Dan McDonald
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:35:13AM -, d...@deadhat.com wrote: > http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/338.pdf *LINUX* /dev/random is not robust, so claims the paper. I wonder how various *BSDs or the Solarish family (Illumos, Oracle Solaris) hold up under similar scrutiny? Linux is big, but it is not

[Cryptography] /dev/random is not robust

2013-10-14 Thread dj
http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/338.pdf ___ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography