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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