Re: Initial entropy with no HWRNG

2020-05-12 Thread Taylor R Campbell
[trimming cc list to tech-crypto] > Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 11:45:58 -0400 > From: Thor Lancelot Simon > > 1) It's hard to understand how many bits of entropy to assign to a >sample from one of these sources. [...] > >The delta estimator _was_ good for these things, particularly for >

Initial entropy with no HWRNG

2020-05-12 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:00:20AM +0300, Andreas Gustafsson wrote: > > Adding more sources could mean > reintroducing some timing based sources after careful analysis, but > also things like having the installer install an initial random seed > on the target machine (and if the installer itself