On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Raul Miller wrote:
> > Counterexample: ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/pub/software/sigs-0.50.tar.gz
> > uses a lot of entropy for secret key generation.
Ingo Molnar <mingo@pc7537.hil.siemens.at> wrote:
> but it's not at all secret anymore if you drain the pool? i think 'lossy'
> (nonblocking) entropy generation should go into libc, not into the kernel!
I'm sorry, I misread your original statement. You are correct.
[This was merely an example of a user-space program that uses a
lot more bits than pgp or ssh.]
-- Raul