[Cryptech Tech] Avalanche noise test boards

Benedikt Stockebrand bs at stepladder-it.com
Sat Aug 23 11:37:33 UTC 2014


Hi Peter and list,

Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz> writes:

> [FreeBSD /dev/{,u}random]
>  Still, preprocessing with Yarrow gets my grunt of
> approval :=).

what I'm somewhat disappointed about is that they still use Yarrow; it's
been ten years ago or so that Schneier et al. proposed Fortuna as its
successor, due to some rather nasty limitations of Yarrow.


Cheers,

    Benedikt

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