chip-level randomness?

[Bill Frantz]

At 1:12 AM -0700 9/19/01, Bram Cohen wrote:
>Of course, there's the religion of people who say that /dev/random output
>'needs' to contain 'all real' entropy, despite the absolute zero increase
>in security this results in and the disastrous effect it can have on
>performance.

If I am generating one time pads, I would certainly prefer /dev/random
output to /dev/urandom output.  There is much less algorithm exposure.
(Although I do still have to worry about the whitening and combining
algorithms.)

Cheers - Bill


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