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Re: linux-ipsec: Re: Proposal (was Summary re: /dev/random)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John D. Hardin)
Tue Aug 3 19:26:44 1999
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 15:30:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: "John D. Hardin" <jhardin@wolfenet.com>
To: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Cc: Sandy Harris <sandy.harris@sympatico.ca>, cryptography@c2.net,
linux-ipsec@clinet.fi
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990802102709.007d2e30@pop.sprynet.com>
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, David Honig wrote:
> There are measures of entropy you could use, e.g.,
> Maurer's Universal Statistical Test. The problem is
> how to fit them into the OS without bogging down
> the system, or not responding adequately to the
> interrupts.
...so we need a userspace program that grabs some bits, figures out
how much entropy they contain, feeds the bits into the pool and
updates the /dev/random entropy counter using the ioctl calls posted
earlier.
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