Patches For A New /dev/random Linux Random Number Generator Revised

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Patches For A New /dev/random Linux Random Number Generator Revised

Stephan Mueller has published his second version of the in-development patches of the Linux Random Number Generator (LRNG) that seeks to provide a new, drop-in replacement for Linux's /dev/random implementation...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LRNG-dev-random-V2

[uid313]

All changes to /dev/random and /dev/urandom are likely to be controversial due to adversaries desiring to weaken it.
Also cryptopgrahy is very difficult, and even when it is open source it is possible to weaken it in subtle ways.

[daemon32]

All changes to /dev/random and /dev/urandom are likely to be controversial due to adversaries desiring to weaken it.
Also cryptopgrahy is very difficult, and even when it is open source it is possible to weaken it in subtle ways.

This is very true, but at least it's nice to see someone is trying to increase boot-time entropy, even if they're evil.

[cjcox]

New random... simple, output '9', '9', '9', until somebody tries to guess the next number is '9', then switch to '28198825', '28198825', etc.... what could be easier. - Sincerely, FBI