From: daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fortuna
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 01:02:53 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3po7t$vrn$1@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20050414004435.GJ3174@waste.org
Matt Mackall wrote:
>While it may have some good properties, it lacks
>some that random.c has, particularly robustness in the face of failure
>of crypto primitives.
It's probably not a big deal, because I'm not worried about the
failure of standard crypto primitives, but--
Do you know of any analysis to back up the claim that /dev/random
will be robust in the failure of crypto primitives? I have never
seen anyone try to do such an analysis, but maybe you know of something
that I don't.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-16 1:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-13 23:43 Fortuna Jean-Luc Cooke
2005-04-14 0:09 ` Fortuna Matt Mackall
2005-04-14 0:26 ` Fortuna Jean-Luc Cooke
2005-04-14 0:44 ` Fortuna Matt Mackall
2005-04-16 1:02 ` David Wagner [this message]
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2005-04-14 14:15 Fortuna linux
2005-04-14 13:33 ` Fortuna Theodore Ts'o
2005-04-15 1:34 ` Fortuna linux
2005-04-15 14:42 ` Fortuna Theodore Ts'o
2005-04-15 15:38 ` Fortuna linux
2005-04-15 18:23 ` Fortuna Theodore Ts'o
2005-04-15 16:22 ` Fortuna Jean-Luc Cooke
2005-04-15 16:50 ` Fortuna linux
2005-04-15 17:04 ` Fortuna Jean-Luc Cooke
2005-04-16 10:05 ` Fortuna linux
2005-04-16 15:46 ` Fortuna Jean-Luc Cooke
2005-04-16 17:16 ` Fortuna linux
2005-04-16 19:22 ` Fortuna Matt Mackall
2005-04-16 19:00 ` Fortuna Matt Mackall
2005-04-17 0:19 ` Fortuna David Wagner
2005-04-16 1:28 ` Fortuna David Wagner
2005-04-15 19:34 ` Fortuna Matt Mackall
2005-04-16 1:25 ` Fortuna David Wagner
2005-04-19 19:27 ` Fortuna Patrick J. LoPresti
2005-04-14 14:52 ` Fortuna Jean-Luc Cooke
2005-04-15 0:52 ` Fortuna linux
2005-04-16 1:19 ` Fortuna David Wagner
2005-04-16 1:08 ` Fortuna David Wagner
2005-04-18 19:13 ` Fortuna Matt Mackall
2005-04-18 21:40 ` Fortuna David Wagner
2005-04-19 4:01 ` Fortuna Theodore Ts'o
2005-04-19 4:31 ` Fortuna David Wagner
2005-04-20 7:06 ` Fortuna Theodore Ts'o
2005-04-16 11:10 Fortuna linux
2005-04-16 15:06 ` Fortuna Jean-Luc Cooke
2005-04-16 16:30 ` Fortuna linux
2005-04-17 0:37 ` Fortuna David Wagner
2005-04-16 23:40 ` Fortuna David Wagner
2005-04-17 0:36 ` Fortuna David Wagner
2005-04-16 11:44 Fortuna linux
2005-04-17 9:21 Fortuna linux
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