On Friday 05 May 2006 19:42, Matt Mackall wrote:
> Remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from USB gadget drivers
>
> There's no a priori reason to think that USB device interrupts will
> contain "entropy" as defined/required by /dev/random. In fact, most
> operations will be streaming and bandwidth- or CPU-limited.
> /dev/random needs unpredictable inputs such as human interaction or
> chaotic physical processes like turbulence manifested in disk seek
> times.
You may remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from disk interrupts on the same grounds,
because flash-based "IDE" drives have no seek. Indeed, with careful
choice of components, setup, and placement of sniffing equipment
you may construct a case where you can predict interrupt times.
But it's too artificial to matter in real life.
Come on, let's get real. A few low bits of TSC are random enough
(for just about any interrupt source).
Attackers will probably look for easier ways to hack your crypto
than predicting /dev/random.
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