[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #14937: Tiny chunks of entropy from /dev/urandom when using virtio RNG

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  • Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 18:08:05 -0000

#14937: Tiny chunks of entropy from /dev/urandom when using virtio RNG
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  Reporter:  kallisti5  |      Owner:  nobody
      Type:  bug        |     Status:  new
  Priority:  normal     |  Milestone:  Unscheduled
 Component:  Drivers    |    Version:  R1/Development
Resolution:             |   Keywords:  urandom
Blocked By:             |   Blocking:
  Platform:  All        |
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Comment (by waddlesplash):

 We should really just adopt OpenBSD's model, which Linux is now adopting,
 which is to read a fixed amount of data from the RNG and use it to seed a
 CSPRNG.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/14937#comment:8>
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