[Cryptography] Random numbers only once

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Thu Feb 20 20:54:40 EST 2014


John Kelsey <crypto.jmk at gmail.com> writes:

>If the pool doesn't have enough entropy, it *has* to block or return an error
>code or something.

Translated:

  If some obscure system component the user has never heard of before doesn't
  have enough zarglemorf, it has the stop the system from functioning.

It's fair enough to make this a theoretical requirement, but it'll never fly
in practice.

Peter.


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