[Cryptography] /dev/random is not robust

Dan McDonald danmcd at kebe.com
Mon Oct 14 20:47:50 EDT 2013


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:35:13AM -0000, dj at deadhat.com wrote:
> http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/338.pdf

*LINUX* /dev/random is not robust, so claims the paper.

I wonder how various *BSDs or the Solarish family (Illumos, Oracle Solaris)
hold up under similar scrutiny?

Linux is big, but it is not everything.

Dan


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