New employment

2018-03-02 Thread Robert J. Hansen
I'm taking a new job with IronNet Cybersecurity, which is run by former Director of the National Security Agency Keith Alexander. My work will not overlap with GnuPG in any way. I'm presenting this in a spirit of full disclosure, so that if and when it comes out later that "the guy who maintains

Re: entropy gathering daemon

2018-03-02 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 05:20, d...@fifthhorseman.net said: > Is there any chance that gcrypt will adopt this approach on GNU/Linux > systems, or at least make it available so that GnuPG can use it? This is already the case since libgcrypt 1.7.1; /etc/gcrypt/random.conf was only added with 1.8.0.

Re: entropy gathering daemon

2018-03-02 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Wed 2018-02-28 16:14:42 +0100, Werner Koch wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:53, ed...@pettijohn-web.com said: > >> for chroot'd programs that need it on a filesystem mounted nodev. I >> sent some patches awhile back to add arc4random_buf as the entropy >> gathering 'device'. Which I've been