Critical EGD handling in 2.1.1p1

[Lutz Jaenicke]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:33:10AM +1000, Damien Miller wrote:
> > [Background: I am playing around with my own "prngd" which replaces EGD
> > and rather emulates an "urandom" device (non-blocking, never drained)
> > by having an internal openssl-PRNG that is continously reseeded and
> > can save seed on close and initialize itself from the seed-file on restart.
> > Hence I have slightly other behaviour of my daemon and a lot of restarts...]
> 
> You might be interested in Peter Gutmann's paper on entropy collection:
> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/random2.pdf
> 
> He analyses a few homegrown random collectors and presents a design
> for an improved one.

Very interesting reading,
	Lutz
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