Re: /dev/random: really secure?

From: Bernd Eckenfels (ecki@lina.inka.de)
Date: Tue Dec 19 2000 - 22:41:15 EST


In article <20001218213801.A19903@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> you wrote:
> A potential weakness. The entropy estimator can be manipulated by
> feeding data which looks random to the estimator, but which is in fact
> not random at all.

That's why feeding randomness is a priveledgedoperation.

Greetings
Bernd
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