Re: DakaRand

[Ben Laurie <ben () links org>]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com> wrote:
> > > My assumption is that the other Unixes weren't looking at interrupt
> > > timing
> > > to begin with, i.e. they've always been as starved for entropy as Linux
> > > eventually became.
> >
> > Well, you know what they say about assumptions.
>
>
> Smart people will come around and help correct them?  :)
>
> > >  That being said, does VXWorks even *have* an OS provided
> > > strong random number generator?
> >
> > Don't know, don't care.
>
>
> Why not?  It carries your data.

Routers should not need strong randomness, at least the way the 'net
works now, to carry my data...

> > > Windows has CryptGenRandom, which AFAIK doesn't block, and survives
> > > everything but VM suspend/restore.
> >
> > FreeBSD also doesn't block.
>
>
> May I ask what FreeBSD's entropy sources are?

It depends - device drivers can add entropy. It does include interrupt
stuff, but not, by the looks of it, timing information, so I await the
results of your experiments with interest (note, btw, I didn't have
much to do with FreeBSD's /dev/random).

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