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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)
Fri, 09 Apr 1999 09:09:28 -0500
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In <In <8625674E.004992E3.00@smtp_mts.mts.mb.ca>, on 04/09/99
at 08:29 AM, steven.soroka@mts.mb.ca said:
>> Is there any analysis of /dev/random used by Linux available?
>I doubt it would pass a statistical test in diehard.. if anyone really
>wants to know, msg me and I'll give it a shot and post the results..
I would be interested. I am becomming rather troubled by the fact that so
many crypto programs on the *nix platform are choosing to use this for
their source of random data without anyone analysing the program to see if
it is up to the task or not.
This is not to attack the authors of this program. I am sure that they
have put quite a bit of time and effort into this program. It just seems
odd that it has been accepted without question, after all we would not all
switch to a new crypto algorithm without extensive peer review, why is it
that the source of random numbers has recevied so little attention?
tks,
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