[Cryptography] Fwd: Would haveged ever be cryptanalyzed?

[Sandy Harris]

Ryan Carboni <ryacko at gmail.com> wrote:

> What is the nature of entropy from interrupts? Based on the cryptanalysis of
> AES, it is very low.

I am not sure what you are talking about here. I fail to see how
either sentence relates to Havege & or what attacks on AES have to do
with interrupts.

> Superscalar processors doing memory manipulations
> aren't very unpredictable. ...

There are a lot of papers claiming they are unpredictable enough to
give good entropy with appropriate processing. For Havege, see:
https://www.irisa.fr/caps/projects/hipsor/