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

[Michael Rogers]

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On 03/11/13 21:09, 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!)

ICMP echo has a data field...

Cheers,
Michael

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