From: daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fortuna
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 01:08:47 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3poiv$vrn$2@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20050414141538.3651.qmail@science.horizon.com
>First, a reminder that the design goal of /dev/random proper is
>information-theoretic security. That is, it should be secure against
>an attacker with infinite computational power.
I am skeptical.
I have never seen any convincing evidence for this claim,
and I suspect that there are cases in which /dev/random fails
to achieve this standard.
And it seems I am not the only one. See, e.g., Section 5.3 of:
http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/029
Fortunately, it doesn't matter whether /dev/random provides
information-theoretic security. I have reasonable confidence that
it provides computational security, and that is all that applications
need.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-16 1:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 ` David Wagner [this message]
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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-17 9:21 Fortuna linux
2005-04-16 11:44 Fortuna linux
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
2005-04-13 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 ` Fortuna David Wagner
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