Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> writes: On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:59, wk@gnupg.org said: Anyway there 3000 calls to /dev/urandom are far too many for an initial pool filling. I need to check this. Found it. The bug was introduced with libgcrypt 1.3.1. Here is a patch: Thanks. Running gnutls-cli using libgcrypt SVN leads to: random usage: poolsize=600 mixed=25 polls=25/113 added
At Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:50:00 -0400, Michael Casadevall <sonicmctails@gmail.com> wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 (this is a response to both emails about said patch) Marcus: I don't think I've ever been nitpicked that badly in my life. Congratulations! I guess it's tough love :) :) :) On Jul 13, 2007, at 4:30 AM, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
Steffen DETTMER wrote: * Lutz Jaenicke wrote on Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 16:46 +0200: OpenSSL's internal PRNG uses a 1024 byte pool mixing entropy with SHA-1 so the more bytes a mixed in, the better. At least it cannot hurt to add any input to it as the entropy in the pool can never decrease by mixing in more bytes. ok, I just think that at least the last sentence
On Sep 8, 7:08 pm, "Trevor Wilson" <trevor@_SPAMBLOCK_rageaudio.com.au> wrote: "Addinall" <addin...@addinall.org> wrote in message news:25a25547-23f9-44ad-a49a-f7b7929c9fc9@a3g2000prm.googlegroups.com... On Sep 8, 6:21 am, "Trevor Wilson" <trevor@_SPAMBLOCK_rageaudio.com.au> wrote: "Addinall" <addin...@addinall.org> wrote in message news:4375bd29-75f8-410b-a4b6-ed1ead7e49b6@n38g2000prl
[This thread has gone into too many sub-threads. I don't believe I'll be able to get to them all now, but let's see how many I can before hving to run] On Jun 27, 7:28 pm, Vend <ven...@virgilio.it> wrote: On 26 Giu, 17:13, part...@yahoo.com wrote: <snip> --------------------------------------------------- Appendix - "god of gaps" arguments may be overwhelmingly convincing
