On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
... I didn't want to look at /dev/random at all, but eventually I had to, because I couldn't figure out a way to feed it entropy without huge amounts of waste. AFAICT that isn't possible in the current version, although this is a fixable problem. ... I have a prototype ("alpha") version of random.c that addresses most of these issues.
this would be useful. heavy consumers of /dev/random and the entropy daemons trying to keep it full a paying quite an efficiency penalty in the current implementation.
A word about the article by Dodis et al. claiming that /dev/random is "not robust". IMHO that is a red herring. It raises issues that have little direct importance....
... but it makes for such a provocative paper!