[HN Gopher] Safer entropy accumulation in Linux 5.18's RNG
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Safer entropy accumulation in Linux 5.18's RNG
Author : zx2c4
Score : 21 points
Date : 2022-02-09 15:43 UTC (1 days ago)
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| aftbit wrote:
| Man I hate twitter threads. I'll wait for LWN.
| loeg wrote:
| Great! We do something similar for mixing input entropy in
| FreeBSD, but use SHA256 instead (only because the code predates
| Blake2, and there hasn't been a compelling reason to switch).
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