Subject: Better PRNG interfaces, FIPS 186-2 for key material, etc.
To: None <tech-net@NetBSD.org>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: tech-net
Date: 09/11/2003 18:41:05
I should've changed the Subject: lines before forking the thread.
One additional point: FIPS 186-2 doesn't include an `entropy pool'.
If we want to keep the entropy pool, we should
(a) Use a mixing function which is known to be entropy-preserving
(b) Weight the inserted entropy into the pool by an estimate of
the *actual* entropy. (See the earlier item about reworking the
kernel random-number API to measure actual, obsevred entropy).