[Cryptography] /dev/random has issues

[Jon Callas]

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On Oct 17, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu> 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 say yes, this is a fine place, myself. How /dev/random, etc. work is at the core of lots of cryptography, from key generation to the appropriateness of whitening functions to real-world engineering, and at the end of the day, cryptography is an engineering discipline.

	Jon


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