[Cryptography] /dev/random has issues

[Bill Frantz]

On 10/17/13 at 2:26 PM, tytso at mit.edu (Theodore Ts'o) wrote:

>Is the cryptography mailing list the best place to be having these
>discussions?  There is the moderation delay, and I'm also not sure how
>eager the moderators are about having the mailing list taken over by
>people talking about code patches, etc., on this list.  I wonder if we
>should create a separate mailing list, perhaps a
>linux-random at vger.kernel.org, and take the more technical discussions
>to that mailing list.

I am quite happy to have the discussion here on the Cryptography 
list. It doesn't produce enough volume to be annoying, and it 
has good technical content.

Real world vs. theory is always interesting. :-)

Cheers - Bill

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