Random numbers for embedded devices
Posted Jul 20, 2012 0:53 UTC (Fri) by
pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)
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Random numbers for embedded devices by cpeterso
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Random numbers for embedded devices
That might make get_random_bytes() very expensive (relatively speaking). My suggestion is that the mixing operations happen only when the entropy pool gets below a low-water mark (but then again perhaps this might make the RNG a little more vulnerable; I'm not totally sure about this).
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