Re: [PATCH] chaoskey: Be conservative with the initial estimate of quality.

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Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> To guard the entropy pool against malicious spoof we assume
> the quality of an unverified source's entropy to be 0.

This removes most of the utility of the device, which is to provide
entropy to a system early in the boot process. If you have physical
security, then a USB device is just as reliable as any other piece of
hardware. If you don't have physical security, then the entire system is
suspect.

-- 
-keith

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