Does /dev/random in virtual guests provide good random data?
Marcus Reid
marcus at blazingdot.com
Tue Jul 14 01:33:49 UTC 2015
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 02:46:30PM +0100, RW via freebsd-hackers wrote:
> FreeBSD uses Yarrow
As of recently, -CURRENT uses Fortuna by default, which is the successor
to Yarrow. It was also devised by Bruce Schneier (with Neils Ferguson).
> , which was designed by Bruce Schneier, a professional cryptographer
> who created the Blowfish cipher, the AES candidate Twofish and PGP.
PGP was created by Phil Zimmermann, not Schneier.
Marcus
> Linux's /dev/random was designed by programmers; actually a lot of
> them, its greatest problem is that it's a mess of patches from
> amateurs.
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