Uniting the Linux random-number devices
Uniting the Linux random-number devices
Posted Feb 18, 2022 16:58 UTC (Fri) by derobert (subscriber, #89569)In reply to: Uniting the Linux random-number devices by developer122
Parent article: Uniting the Linux random-number devices
Originally /dev/random made some guess of when entropy was "depleted", but that didn't really make sense — one effect of a PRNG being cryptography secure is it doesn't deplete the entropy. So a while back, that was removed.
An attacker can gain no knowledge of the CSPRNG's state from its output (well, at least not without an impossible number of them, like 2^128). It doesn't matter if they have a few billion or trillion.
And Linux keeps mixing in new entropy, so the internal state changes over time.