[Cryptography] [RNG] /dev/random initialisation

[Jerry Leichter]

Jeez, don't people recognize smileys any more?

                                                        -- Jerry :-)

On Oct 31, 2013, at 2:11 PM, Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> 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
>