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Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys
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Werner Koch |
Subject: |
Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:21:34 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:18:43 +0100, Florian Weimer said:
> Why not fix /dev/random instead, and add the functionality which is
> missing there? With all the trouble with threading, forking, and so
> on, it might make sense to put this into the kernel.
Sure. That was orginally Ted Tso's plan but he could not get a solid
RNG into the kernel because the kernel hackers required to amke
/dev/random optional and Ted's plan was to have a solid RNG in the
kernel as a standard service.
With all the changes to the RNG (or better the so-called entropy
sources) I still feel safer to add some extra processing to
/dev/random.
Some OSes don't have a /dev/random or worse a predictable one (some OS X).
Thus we need to do it on our own to be portable.
Salam-Shalom,
Werner
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, (continued)
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/01/18
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Werner Koch, 2006/01/19
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Andreas Metzler, 2006/01/30
- [gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, Simon Josefsson, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys,
Werner Koch <=
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/30
- [gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, Simon Josefsson, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, Werner Koch, 2006/01/31
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Werner Koch, 2006/01/31
Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/30