Collecting entropy from device_attach() times.
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Fri Sep 21 23:20:34 UTC 2012
RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> writes:
> They key will therefore *accumulate* entropy across multiple reseeds.
Forgot to address this. By definition, there can never be more entropy
in Yarrow than the key size. So it *does* throw away entropy in the
sense that if it accumulated, say, 900 bits of entropy pre-boot (to pick
one of the numbers Pawel cited), 650 of them are wasted.
DES
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