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

[Jerry Leichter]

On Nov 3, 2013, at 4:09 PM, Kent Borg wrote:

> 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!)
How many bits in a cupful of entropy?
                                                        -- Jerry