[Cryptography] cheap sources of entropy

Stephan Neuhaus stephan.neuhaus at tik.ee.ethz.ch
Thu Jan 30 01:50:41 EST 2014


On 30.01.2014 06:36, John Denker wrote:
> Well, that's basically the right idea.  I will assume(*) that
> by "mix" you mean something like a good cryptologic hash.

Taking Dan's original formulation of "N bit streams, at least one of 
which is truly unpredictable", a simple XOR would be enough.

Fun,

Stephan


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