Re: [Cryptography] Randomness for crypto, github repositories

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I've only looked at it briefly, but I have a question.. Are you trying to
use the GCM Galois multiply as an entropy extractor?

I don't know of any proof that it is a good extractor for any class of
entropic data. That doesn't mean there isn't one, but I've not heard of
one.

> I've just created github repositories for two projects:
>
> https://github.com/sandy-harris/random.test
>
> Test program for things I want to add to the Linux random(4) driver. I
> am proposing a fairly radical rewrite. This gives an executable test
> program for my new code, not a driver.
>
> https://github.com/sandy-harris/maxwell
>
> A demon to feed random(4) with entropy derived from the timer.
> Intended mainly for use on limited systems which may lack other good
> sources.

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