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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Thu May 27 1999 - 23:44:21
William H. Geiger III (whgiii@openpgp.net)
Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:55:32 -0500
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In <19990408214520.B14796@alphalinux.org>, on 04/08/99
at 04:45 PM, "Daniel J. Frasnelli" <dfrasnel@alphalinux.org> said:
>> Is there any analysis of /dev/random used by Linux available?
>Yeah, linux/drivers/char/random.c and linux/include/linux/random.h.
>Seriously, there is a fairly good explanation of the algorithm under
>"Theory of operation" in random.c. Of course, you can always look at the
>source itself and come up with your own
>analysis.
Yes I have both printed out and plan on using this for my light reading in
Tacoma. :)
Considering the importance of /dev/random with every major crypto program
using it (SSH, SSLeay, PGP, IPSec, ...ect) I would have thought that
someone (out side of the author) would have done some indepth analysis of
the code and it's methods.
Oh well, if nothing else I guess I could write a paper on it though I am
sure there are those who are better qualified than me for such a project.
:)
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