From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] services: Add 'dropbear-service'. Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 19:54:23 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20160704205616.11599-1-david@craven.ch> <20160704205616.11599-2-david@craven.ch> <20160707172517.GA5283@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50422) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLDVQ-00082H-FJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 13:54:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLDVM-0002I5-C1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 13:54:32 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-x236.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c05::236]:34404) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLDVL-0002HM-4u for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 13:54:28 -0400 Received: by mail-yw0-x236.google.com with SMTP id i12so20520807ywa.1 for ; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 10:54:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20160707172517.GA5283@jasmine> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org That's my understanding too. From a quick glance at the source it falls back onto stuff from /proc /sys. I guess there are weaker links in a system dough, but I'm also no expert. On a side note there are the matsano crypto challanges that are pretty cool, in case you haven't heard of them, I never got to the implementing/cracking prngs dough, simply not enough time... [0] https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/blob/master/dbrandom.c#L205 http://cryptopals.com/