It's going to be hard to pick one of the five finalists. But if
the criteria remain (substantially) the same, I think the field
may be narrowed significantly. I'm making one very crucial assumption
here, of course -- that to the extent it is knowable, all five
finalists (Rijndael, MARS, RC6, Ser
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A working group like this with only two years to go in
an administration worrying about its place in history
must be one of two things, only:
1. we are referring this to committee so that we can say
we did something without having actually to do anything
(what is sometimes rendered in Italian a
I have found this discussion very stimulating and enlightening. I'd
like to make a couple of comments:
1. Mr. Kelsey's argument that entropy should only be added in large
quanta is compelling, but I wonder if it goes far enough. I would
argue that entropy collected from different sources (disk
> "Arnold" == Arnold G Reinhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Arnold> I have found this discussion very stimulating and
Arnold> enlightening. I'd like to make a couple of comments:
Arnold> 1. Mr. Kelsey's argument that entropy should only be added in
Arnold> large quanta is compelling, but
At 10:44 AM 8/10/99 -0400, Dan Geer proposed an explanation:
>2. we already have our draft conclusions in white paper
>form and we need to have the appearance of due process
I expect the conclusions can be inferred from that other recent
Administration exercise: "Encryption: Impact on Law Enforc
At 11:38 AM -0400 8/10/99, Paul Koning replied:
> > "Arnold" == Arnold G Reinhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Arnold> ...
> Arnold> 1. Mr. Kelsey's argument that entropy should only be added in
> Arnold> large quanta is compelling, but I wonder if it goes far
> Arnold> enough. I would argue
Entropy estimation in /dev/random (and /dev/urandom)
Linux /dev/random adds randomness from the environment and estimates the
entropy it gains by doing so. Entropy is a measure of the uncertainty
which an outside observer would have over the internal RNG state (called
the "random pool" in /dev/r
