Re: attacks on Linxu RNG (paper)

["Christian" <evil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, March 8, 2006 15:25, Jean-Luc Cooke wrote:
> I didn't not write this.  I've given up trying to convince people of the
> problems with the Linux RNG long ago.

I've heard of this, but never got around looking into this. thanks for the
link!

> ps.  My out-of-date Fortuna RNG page: http://jlcooke.ca/random/

why is this out-of-date? the last patch is for 2.6.12, is it not
maintained any more? I suppose that you have sent patches to lkml as well
- any pointers why the patches were rejected...?

thanks,
Christian.
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