On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 07:06:06PM +0100, Christian wrote: > On Wed, March 8, 2006 15:25, Jean-Luc Cooke wrote: > > I didn't not write this. I've given up trying to convince people of the > > problems with the Linux RNG long ago. Just saw my bad english above. Sorry to all grammer nazis out there. > I've heard of this, but never got around looking into this. thanks for the > link! No problem. Good paper by the way, I suggest folks read it (eprint.iacr.org/2006/086) > > ps. My out-of-date Fortuna RNG page: http://jlcooke.ca/random/ > > why is this out-of-date? the last patch is for 2.6.12, is it not > maintained any more? I suppose that you have sent patches to lkml as well > - any pointers why the patches were rejected...? Oh god. Yes. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111343641603732&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109598444526812&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109647848816402&w=2 That's just a start. JLC - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
