[Cryptography] cheap sources of entropy

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Tue Jan 28 21:25:48 EST 2014


On 2014-01-29 12:09, John Kelsey wrote:
 > Unfortunately, pretty much all real-world systems
 > have some time (often very soon after their
 > first startup) when they have to generate some high value key.

Don't do that.   Should not even be possible to do that.

By the time boot up process is otherwise complete, should have enough 
entropy.



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