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[Help-gnutls] Re: Alternate random device for certtool
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Stephane Bortzmeyer |
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[Help-gnutls] Re: Alternate random device for certtool |
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Mon, 8 Dec 2008 09:53:01 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 10:06:38PM +0200,
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden> wrote
a message of 66 lines which said:
> There are many parts in a typical PC that can feed a prng with
> non-deterministic data. Typical examples are the network card and
> sound card (mic etc), hard disks, memory accesses, interrupts,
> thermal sensors etc.
Not all are equal. See RFC 4086 <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4086.txt>
for a discussion of why the hard disk is better than the network card.