[Cryptography] RFC possible changes for Linux random device

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 04:22:20PM +0000, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> 
> Is there any concern with respect to server applications that create
> a thread per client request, and consume very little random data
> in each thread, but create pthreads at a high rate?  

I would think that in most cases, for each per-client request, they
would want to consume at least a session key's worth entropy.  In
which case it would be no worse than what we have today, at least with
respect to entropy consumption.

Cheers,

					- Ted