On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 03:22:56PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > > The only reason someone would use this is to comply with the > > standard and this is what the standard requires so I don't see > > how we can do anything else. > > I do not see a definite quality requirement of the seed source in SP800-90A. Section 8.6.5 "Source of Entropy Input" explicitly requires this. TBH whether /dev/random even satisfies 8.6.5 is also debatable. But it agrees with the specification at least in spirit. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
