[Cryptography] [FORGED] Re: TRNG related review: rngd and /dev/random

[Peter Gutmann]

Bill Cox <waywardgeek at gmail.com> writes:

>I may be wrong about this, but the threat-case where I think this matters is
>when an attacker gets access to the machine, learns the state of the entropy
>pool, and then loses access.  Can the machine recover?

Only if the attacker is pretty incompetent.

Once an attacker has had physical access and/or root, all bets are off.

Peter.