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Removing something from an entropy pool because it could be used by an attacker seems really odd to me.
by X6S1x6Okd1st 8y ago
Removing something from an entropy pool because it could be used by an attacker seems really odd to me.
- schoen 8y agoIt may have been inspired by arguments like https://blog.cr.yp.to/20140205-entropy.html https://blog.cr.yp.to/20140205-entropy.html (although that one was published five years later than the change we're talking about).
- clarry 8y agoThat would be rather misguided though. It's not like a device is going to know the exact time the interrupt handler routine would run, hash it, and go back "whoops, better not fire an interrupt yet because it won't be on the right tick!"