From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sandyinchina@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/6] /dev/random - a new approach
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:51:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160422025155.GA6690@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9192755.iDgo3Omyqe@positron.chronox.de>
I still have a massive problem with the claims that the "Jitter" RNG
provides any amount of entropy. Just because you and I might not be
able to analyze it doesn't mean that somebody else couldn't. After
all, DUAL-EC DRNG was very complicated and hard to analyze. So would
be something like
AES(NSA_KEY, COUNTER++)
Very hard to analyze indeed. Shall we run statistical tests? They'll
pass with flying colors.
Secure? Not so much.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-22 2:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-21 9:11 [RFC][PATCH 0/6] /dev/random - a new approach Stephan Mueller
2016-04-21 9:12 ` [PATCH 1/6] crypto: DRBG - externalize DRBG functions for LRNG Stephan Mueller
2016-04-21 9:13 ` [PATCH 2/6] random: conditionally compile code depending on LRNG Stephan Mueller
2016-04-21 9:13 ` [PATCH 3/6] crypto: Linux Random Number Generator Stephan Mueller
2016-04-21 9:14 ` [PATCH 4/6] crypto: LRNG - enable compile Stephan Mueller
2016-04-21 9:14 ` [PATCH 5/6] crypto: LRNG - hook LRNG into interrupt handler Stephan Mueller
2016-04-21 9:16 ` [PATCH 6/6] hyperv IRQ handler: trigger LRNG Stephan Mueller
2016-04-21 13:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/6] /dev/random - a new approach Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2016-04-21 13:09 ` Stephan Mueller
2016-04-21 15:16 ` Stephan Mueller
2016-04-25 7:55 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2016-04-25 8:02 ` Stephan Mueller
2016-04-25 8:23 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2016-04-26 1:11 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-05-03 13:57 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2016-05-03 14:48 ` tytso
2016-05-03 16:20 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2016-05-03 15:01 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-04-22 2:51 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2016-04-22 4:59 ` Stephan Mueller
2016-04-22 13:09 ` Sandy Harris
2016-04-24 15:21 ` Pavel Machek
2016-04-24 17:32 ` Stephan Mueller
2016-04-24 21:25 ` Pavel Machek
2016-04-25 5:12 ` Stephan Mueller
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