From: Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Entropy available for luksFormat during GNU/Linux installs
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:56:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100124165627.GA29137@fancy-poultry.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Mahogany-0.67.1-4784-20100124-153147.00@ming.ricknet.net>
On 24.01.2010, Rick Moritz wrote:
> Once the entropy pool is exhausted, yes. Because then the randomness is no longer actual randomness, but pseudo-randomness,
Yes, urandom is a PRGN.
> and can be predicted if you have the random seed available.
Thanks for pointing this out again! So I don't have to worry, nobody will
get hands on my random seed ever. The time I generated the master key to
my partitions is long gone, and so is the random seed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-24 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-24 6:17 [dm-crypt] Entropy available for luksFormat during GNU/Linux installs Roscoe
2010-01-24 10:50 ` Milan Broz
2010-01-24 13:11 ` Arno Wagner
2010-01-24 14:02 ` Heinz Diehl
2010-01-24 14:31 ` Rick Moritz
2010-01-24 16:56 ` Heinz Diehl [this message]
2010-01-24 23:11 ` Arno Wagner
2010-01-24 23:03 ` Arno Wagner
2010-01-25 11:25 ` Milan Broz
2010-02-03 0:45 ` Roscoe
2010-02-03 6:21 ` Arno Wagner
2010-02-03 7:57 ` Arno Wagner
2010-02-03 12:31 ` Roscoe
2010-02-03 8:56 ` Milan Broz
[not found] ` <cf657bae1002030430l3b0f4768x19e917466b5664bb@mail.gmail.com>
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[not found] ` <cf657bae1002031231s6dd17c8bq118e5c5276c31b84@mail.gmail.com>
2010-03-23 8:43 ` Roscoe
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2010-01-24 18:12 Si St
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