bogus random entropy sources
bogus random entropy sources
Posted Oct 6, 2010 3:47 UTC (Wed) by jzbiciak (guest, #5246)In reply to: bogus random entropy sources by PaulWay
Parent article: Solid-state storage devices and the block layer
Well, /dev/urandom doesn't block when the kernel entropy pool runs out. The hardware crypto acceleration may've been getting used, but that's orthogonal to the question of gathering entropy.
Posted Oct 6, 2010 19:34 UTC (Wed)
by paulj (subscriber, #341)
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bogus random entropy sources
Hehe, so shred was using entropy collected from the disk controllers, collected from shred writing to disks..