[Gllug] Questions arising from the random discussions...

Tue Aug 3 07:24:00 UTC 2010

On 3 Aug 2010, Jose de Paula Eufrasio Junior spake thusly:

> This is a 2006 paper about the quality of the Linux PRNG (Pseudo
> Random Number Generator): http://bit.ly/ckO9RJ
>
> Long paper short: at the time the PRNG depended on mouse/keyboard/disk
> input to generate entropy, and thus a problem in devices that have
> none of those (like embedded routers and so on). I don't know how much
> of the paper applies to newer kernel versions.

More than it did. There are more diskless systems around (and in this
context 'diskless' applies to any systems with no rotating storage: so
machines with only SSDs count).
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