[Cryptography] [RNG] /dev/random initialisation

Kent Borg kentborg at borg.org
Thu Oct 31 14:11:36 EDT 2013


On 10/31/2013 06:49 AM, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> Ah, so like FIPS, Linux only accepts "real" entropy from 
> "authenticated" sources. :-)

Yes, but not centralized, approved, and documented with the NSA.

For example, at a low-credit rate, it includes a rather diffuse and hard 
to characterize source: "interrupts".

-kb



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