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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.

  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>
     [not found]                 ` <4B697D55.5020304@redhat.com>
     [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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