From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:16:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:16:27 -0400 Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com ([207.69.200.110]:36103 "EHLO smtp6.mindspring.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:16:13 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] let Net Devices feed Entropy, updated (1/2) From: Robert Love To: Martin Dalecki Cc: Johan Adolfsson , Oliver Xymoron , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riel@conectiva.com.br In-Reply-To: <3B80EADC.234B39F0@evision-ventures.com> In-Reply-To: <998193404.653.12.camel@phantasy> <3B80E01B.2C61FF8@evision-ventures.com> <21a701c12963$bcb05b60$0a070d0a@axis.se> <3B80EADC.234B39F0@evision-ventures.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.12.99+cvs.2001.08.19.07.08 (Preview Release) Date: 20 Aug 2001 12:15:51 -0400 Message-Id: <998324166.2936.1.camel@phantasy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 20 Aug 2001 12:47:56 +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote: > The device get's powerd up at a random time for the attacker. > That's entierly sufficient if you assume that your checksum function > f(i) hat the property that there is no function g, where we have > f(i+1)=g(f(i)), where g has a polynomial order over the time domain. > i is unknown for the attacker. isnt that the case? also, its not even that g completes in polynomial time. its that g is not algorithmic at all. -- Robert M. Love rml at ufl.edu rml at tech9.net