On 2006-05-05, at 21:11, Theodore Tso wrote:
I've always thought the right answer is that whether or not network
packet arrival times should be used as entropy input should be
configurable, since depending on the environment, it might or might
not be safe, and for some hosts (particularly diskless servers), the
network might be the only source of entropy available to them.
The trully concerned should simply use true random number generators.
Like a zenner diodes noise.
For everybody else... most if not all of what /dev/random does, just
simply
isn't worth the trouble at all. Thus the less of it the better.
BTW. Did somebody notice that the whole disc seek time dance around /
dev/random does,
is quite idiotic for deterministic flash drives? It will screw yours
"randomness" silently...
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