[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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