[Cryptography] [RNG] on RNGs, VM state, rollback, etc.

[James A. Donald]

On 2013-10-25 22:12, John Kelsey wrote:
 > This gets back to the threat model discussion.  If your attacker is
 > watching you from the outside as you generate your key, then
 > interacting with stuff over the local net won't help you much.

 > (You may get a bit or two of entropy from the attacker not being
 > able to know exactly which clock-tick you were on when the interrupt
 > was serviced, but not much.).

It does not take very long to get 128 interrupts.