Collecting entropy from device_attach() times.

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Fri Sep 21 23:15:48 UTC 2012


RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> writes:
> > > Reseeding doesn't throw away entropy
> > Yes, it does.
> Would you elaborate? I don't see what you mean by that?

Never mind.  I read through the code multiple times without seeing the
line where it mixes in the old key.  It does it in a very strange way,
though: it doesn't just mix in the key, but the entire AES context.

DES
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