On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > You don't care in practice, 256 bits are unguessable. Actually, I do..that's the entire point of using long keys. > If you do care, you load a different random module :-) The core of my complaint is that even though our old PRNG did crappy entropy handling, we used to have such a method, which is now gone. I'd like to see yarrow hang off /dev/urandom and have /dev/random tap directly into the entropy pool (perhaps a third pool separate from Yarrow's fast/slow) so I can generate my large keys safely. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
- RE: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak David Schwartz
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Jeroen C. van Gelderen
- RE: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak David Schwartz
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Kris Kennaway
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Mark Murray
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Kris Kennaway
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Mark Murray
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Kris Kennaway
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Mark Murray
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Jeroen C. van Gelderen
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Kris Kennaway
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Jeroen C. van Gelderen
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Kris Kennaway
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Mark Murray
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Kris Kennaway
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Mark Murray
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Kris Kennaway
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Mark Murray
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Kris Kennaway
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Mark Murray
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Jeroen C. van Gelderen