[Cryptography] What's a Plausible Attack On Random Number Generation?

Kent Borg kentborg at borg.org
Sun Nov 3 16:09:07 EST 2013


Yaron Sheffer suggested:
> Suppose I'm an (entropy) poor home router in an (entropy) poor home, 
> with just one desktop machine behind me. We could have the PC send some 
>random material in the DHCP *request*, and the router is free to mix it 
> into its very shallow entropy pool.

Starting to sound so neighborly: whenever you think a neighbor could maybe use some entropy, offer a little.  (To be mixed with other sources!)

-kb


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