Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Feb 2014 17:44:38 -0500 | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH,RFC] random: collect cpu randomness |
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On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 09:54:22PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > Can we be sure we don't leak information this way? Just being > paranoid...
The register information will be mixed pretty thoroughly by the time it gets to the entropy pool, and then we don't ever expose the entropy pool to userspace. So no, I don't think we need to worry about leaking information.
- Ted
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