Questions about key generation and RNG

Christoph Anton Mitterer calestyo at scientia.net
Fri Sep 3 19:26:03 CEST 2010


On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 15:02 +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> EGD is a kludge for systems lacking /dev/random.  The kernel is the best
> place to collect entropy; all kind of user processes to do this are a
> second choice.
You don't include the daemons used by TRNGs in order to seed the kernels
PRNG, do you?


Cheers,
Chris.




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