[Cryptography] [RNG] on RNGs, VM state, rollback, etc.

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Sat Oct 19 13:21:03 PDT 2013


On 2013-10-20 00:33, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> As I've already said, I'm open to adding code that blocks /dev/urandom
> until "enough" entropy has been collected.  But that's an
> interface-visible change, and it could break things.

It will break things that should be broken, causing them to fail 
visibly, when previously they failed invisibly.




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