[6872] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: KeyTool internal state
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Ellison)
Fri Mar 31 21:25:13 2000
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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:32:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Gary Ellison <gary.ellison@sun.com>
To: gary.ellison@sun.com
Cc: Andrew Cooke <andrew@intertrader.com>, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <14564.61004.963504.582707@bootsy.eng.sun.com>
Reply-To: gary.ellison@sun.com
>>>>> " " == Gary Ellison <gary.ellison@sun.com> writes:
>>>>> " " == Andrew Cooke <andrew@intertrader.com> writes:
> The algorithm can perform poorly in the absence of a JIT and
> so we are considering supplying an alternative provider which will
> take advantage of platform specific support for an entropy gathering
> device such as /dev/random or the Pentium III thermal-noise RNG.
I need to clarify what I meant by "perform poorly." In the absence of
a JIT the PRNG "runs slow." The quality of the random numbers still
meet our target.
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