Intel 810 Random Number Generator

Jeremy Fitzhardinge jeremy en goop.org
Mar Ene 25 02:55:50 CST 2000


On 24-Jan-00 Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Either you trust RNG or you don't.  There is no middle ground.
> 
> If you do not trust RNG, then using it as a /dev/random entropy source
> is pointless.  Why introduce theoretically non-random entropy to the
> /dev/random pool?

Sure there's middle ground.  If you don't trust it and 8 bits only has the
entropy of 4 random bits, then its useless as key material, but quite good to
throw into the /dev/random pool. /dev/random's entropy estimate may be wrong,
but that's not a disaster given the robustness of its mixing algorithms.

        J

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