[Cryptech Tech] Avalanche noise test boards

[Joachim Strömbergson]

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Aloha!

Benedikt Stockebrand wrote:
> My point is not that Fortuna should be used these days, but that
> anybody still using Yarrow ten years after a significantly improved
> successor has been published is obviously not keeping up with current
> advances in the area.

Because Yarrow is deemded to be good enough?

Other OSes uses or has been using much more suspect, ad hoc and less
well designed algorithms than FreeBSD with Yarrow.

I agree with you that Fortuna seems to be a much better algorithm. And
esp the entropy estimation part of Yarrow is troublesome. This paper
gives a good boost for Fortuna:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/the_security_of_7.html

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Med vänlig hälsning, Yours

Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning.
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 Joachim Strömbergson          Secworks AB          joachim at secworks.se
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