CPRNGs are still an issue.
Damien Miller
djm at mindrot.org
Thu Dec 11 20:42:57 EST 2008
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, James A. Donald wrote:
> If one uses a higher resolution counter - sub
> microsecond - and times multiple disk accesses, one gets
> true physical randomness, since disk access times are
> effected by turbulence, which is physically true
> random.
Until someone runs your software on a SSD instead of a HDD. Oops.
-d
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