[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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