Re: [patch 0/2] Add Fortuna PRNG to pgcrypto

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Marko Kreen <marko(at)l-t(dot)ee>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/2] Add Fortuna PRNG to pgcrypto
Date: 2005-07-08 19:10:47
Message-ID: 20050708191047.GA19472@wolff.to
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On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 20:54:40 +0300,
Marko Kreen <marko(at)l-t(dot)ee> wrote:
>
> The idea is to initially seed Fortuna with randomness from
> system and later feed SHA1 of user data into it too. Just
> to keep it from degenerating into pure PRNG.

How is fortuna getting entropy?
Wouldn't this be better placed in the OS as the source of /dev/urandom rather
than as part of Postgres?

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