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Michael Kerrisk 2008-07-01 14:15:13 +00:00
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@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ or Diffie-Hellman private key has an effective key size of 128 bits
needs 128 bits (16 bytes) of seed material from
.IR /dev/random .
While some fudge factor above that minimum is reasonable, as a guard
While some safety margin above that minimum is reasonable, as a guard
against flaws in the CPRNG algorithm, no cryptographic primitive
available today can hope to promise more than 256 bits of security,
so if any program reads more than 256 bits (32 bytes) from the kernel