Re: insufficient entropy for rnd

"Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.crypto
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Daniel Carosone <[email protected]> writes:
> It is the reason device-type net is disabled by default, and it's
> not a serious risk. Anyone who can predict the arrival time of a
> network packet interrupt (and subsequent processing) within the
> precision of a CPU cycle counter has enough control over your
> machine that randomness is irrelevant.

I disagree, and besides, many machines don't have cycle counters. If
you want to have a long discussion on it, we can, but its a side issue
in the current conversation.


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Perry E. Metzger		[email protected]
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