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[Help-gnutls] Re: Alternate random device for certtool
From: |
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos |
Subject: |
[Help-gnutls] Re: Alternate random device for certtool |
Date: |
Mon, 8 Dec 2008 16:35:42 +0200 |
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
Of course they are not. What I say is that the PRNG should be able to
use them all at no cost.
regards,
Nikos