On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 08:33:20AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> BTW, note that it would be a polite thing for GnuTLS when it is
> encrpyting data, which represents information which might not be
> available to an adversary, and SHA1 hash it (out of paranoia) and feed
> it to /dev/random.
>
> This won't give any "credits" to the random entropy counter, but to
> the extent that is information that isn't available to the adversary,
> it adds additional uncertainty to the random pool.
I have filed this as https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?106113
Thanks for suggesting.
Greetings
Marc
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