[Gnuk-users] Security of NeuG?

[NIIBE Yutaka]

Hello, Micah,

On 02/17/2015 04:59 AM, micah wrote:
> The way rngd works is it is careful about dominating the pool by having
> a random step function to fill it. This means that haveged dominates and
> results in zero mixing because when rngd wakes up, it sees that the pool
> is filled and doesn't have to do anything.

I didn't know that.  Thank you for this important point.

> Someone with some C knowledge could do us all a favor and make haveged
> use a step function to make it more safe!

I see.  Meanwhile, I agree stopping haveged.
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