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Poettering: The Biggest MythsPoettering: The Biggest MythsPosted Jan 29, 2013 22:14 UTC (Tue) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)In reply to: Poettering: The Biggest Myths by engla Parent article: Poettering: The Biggest Myths
An amusing theory with just one small problem: LWN uses https by default. That means they consume a lot of entropy every time somebody connects to read the latest flames. All the SSL connections from a massive systemd flamewar will actually deplete their entropy pool far faster than the posts will refresh it. Not to mention the absolute foolishness of depending on user-provided information to replenish the entropy pool in the first place...
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Poettering: The Biggest Myths Posted Jan 30, 2013 1:13 UTC (Wed) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]
It's not like systemd or gnome3 threads contain any entropy anyway.... ;)
Poettering: The Biggest Myths Posted Jan 30, 2013 2:28 UTC (Wed) by cb064 (guest, #88059) [Link]
the timing of our network packets might just contain enough of it .. Though the time between requests might correlate with the current length of the thread (at least for individuals reading the comments) .
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