[Cryptography] Would haveged ever be cryptanalyzed?

[Ryan Carboni]

What is the nature of entropy from interrupts? Based on the cryptanalysis
of AES, it is very low. Superscalar processors doing memory manipulations
aren't very unpredictable. Why is that? Computers are deterministic, even
variable delays can be predicted.

This is well known. Why would there be entropy from network or disk
interrupts then? Packet loss and packet reordering, which is caused by
signal interference. Hard drives have even more interference as they may
fail to write or read a block properly the first time.

These aren't hitherto unknown concepts.


If only instead of examining the state transitions of RC4, people would
examine haveged. I personally can't program so whatever.
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