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Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys
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Werner Koch |
Subject: |
Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys |
Date: |
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:23:18 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:26:00 +0100, Florian Weimer said:
>> Sure. That was orginally Ted Tso's plan but he could not get a solid
>> RNG into the kernel because the kernel hackers required to amke
>> /dev/random optional and Ted's plan was to have a solid RNG in the
>> kernel as a standard service.
> /dev/random is no longer optional, it's needed by the network stack
It has never been optional. This was a top priority design criteria
and the one-pool-only design is due to this. Thanks to the
stubbornness of some Linux hackers.
Salam-Shalom,
Werner
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, (continued)
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Andreas Metzler, 2006/01/30
- [gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, Simon Josefsson, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Werner Koch, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/30
- [gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, Simon Josefsson, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, Werner Koch, 2006/01/31
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys,
Werner Koch <=
Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/30
- [gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, Simon Josefsson, 2006/01/30
- [gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/30
- [gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, Simon Josefsson, 2006/01/30
- [gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/30
- [gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, Simon Josefsson, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, Werner Koch, 2006/01/31