On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:12:59PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 23:03:49 +0300,
> Marko Kreen wrote:
> >
> > Well, those OS'es that already have urandom/random, don't need
> > it. And those that don't - I really don't feel responsibility
> > to write one...
>
> But
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 23:03:49 +0300,
Marko Kreen wrote:
>
> Well, those OS'es that already have urandom/random, don't need
> it. And those that don't - I really don't feel responsibility
> to write one...
But fortuna is essentially a high quality /dev/urandom. It doesn't make seem to
much
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:10:47PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 20:54:40 +0300,
> Marko Kreen wrote:
> >
> > The idea is to initially seed Fortuna with randomness from
> > system and later feed SHA1 of user data into it too. Just
> > to keep it from degenerating into
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 20:54:40 +0300,
Marko Kreen wrote:
>
> The idea is to initially seed Fortuna with randomness from
> system and later feed SHA1 of user data into it too. Just
> to keep it from degenerating into pure PRNG.
How is fortuna getting entropy?
Wouldn't this be better placed i
Following two patches add Fortuna PRNG to pgcrypto. I think
this is needed to really complete the 'no hand-config' direction
of pgcrypto.
Patch #1 adds implementation of SHA2 hashes (SHA256/384/512).
They are required for Fortuna. As they are replacements
for SHA1 (which was replacement for MD5)
