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| author | lloyd <[email protected]> | 2009-06-21 19:02:34 +0000 |
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| committer | lloyd <[email protected]> | 2009-06-21 19:02:34 +0000 |
| commit | 41f381d1873bc343bf472e97f5bae718471365c9 (patch) | |
| tree | 8d54d15c06e9772fd4932142cfba4073aec77df6 /doc/log.txt | |
| parent | 0b512325b23e29ce400b5b03cdfa502fb6fcefa5 (diff) | |
Improve handling of low-entropy situations in HMAC_RNG and Randpool.
When a reseed is attempted, up to poll_bits attempts will be made, running
in order through the set of available sources. So for instance if poll_bits
is set to the default 256, then up to 256 polls will be performed (some of
which might not provide any entropy, of course) before stopping; of course
if the accumulators goal is achived before that point, then the polling stops.
This should greatly help to resolve the recent rash of PRNG unseeded problems
some people have been having.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/log.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/log.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/log.txt b/doc/log.txt index 9ca274ff4..d29f00f36 100644 --- a/doc/log.txt +++ b/doc/log.txt @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ * 1.8.3-pre, 2009-??-?? - - Add the Skein-512 hash function - - Add XTS mode from IEEE P1619 - - Use a default value for AutoSeeded_RNG::reseed + - Improve handling of low-entropy situations during PRNG seeding + - Add the Skein-512 SHA-3 candidate hash function + - Add the XTS block cipher mode from IEEE P1619 + - Provide a default value for AutoSeeded_RNG::reseed - Fix Gentoo bug 272242 * 1.8.2, 2009-04-07 |