alt Hacker Newsthis is a well known attack...
if your algorithm controls a source of entropy and can inspect the other sources, it can craft its source to bias the result. a fanciful attack but it means you should at least discriminate what you put into the pool.
this is a well known attack...
if your algorithm controls a source of entropy and can inspect the other sources, it can craft its source to bias the result. a fanciful attack but it means you should at least discriminate what you put into the pool.
Can you link to the paper you're thinking of? Maybe people are just talking past each other here. A biased random source can't bias the kernel random pool in any straightforward kind of way.