Re: Questions on FIPS140-2 and RNG tests
From: Andrew Swallow (am.swallow_at_eatspam.btinternet.com)
Date: 05/19/04
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Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 20:26:23 +0000 (UTC)
"Stephan Neuhaus" <neuhaus@cs.uni-sb.de> wrote in message
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[snip]
> It's a thorny issue. Some people say that we must provide only the right
> interfaces, with the probability of misuse minimized, and they have a
> point. But I also believe that users---and programmers---will often
> just want to make the "stupid error message" go away by any means. In
> this case, most won't understand it anyhow, given that the lack of
> entropy probably doesn't translate into anything in the user's experience.
>
Most people can understand the idea that when the car
says it is short of fuel it is time to go and buy some more
fuel. The small amount of free fuel/entropy that came with
the machine has been used up.
If the company is a big user of entropy they may need to
buy an entropy making machine, they call these machine
true random number generators - supplies can be found
on the web.
Andrew Swallow
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