Hi,
On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Sandy Harris wrote:
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>> From: John Gilmore
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> An exceedingly knowledgeable guy, one we should probably take seriously.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore_(activist)
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>> Most hardware crypto accelerator
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> From: John Gilmore
An exceedingly knowledgeable guy, one we should probably take seriously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore_(activist)
> Most hardware crypto accelerators are useless, ...
> ... you might as well have
> just computed the an
To me it seems obvious that if the hardware provides a real RNG, that
should be used to feed random(4). This solves a genuine problem and,
even if calls to the hardware are expensive, overall overhead will not
be high because random(4) does not need huge amounts of input.
I'm much less certain har
Cleaning up old email, ran across this post & it seemed to me it might
be relevant here:
-- Forwarded message --
From: John Gilmore
Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Hardware Crypto
To: "erik.e.har...@gmail.com"
Cc: freedombox
