[Cryptography] cheap sources of entropy
James A. Donald
Jamesd at echeque.com
Thu Jan 30 16:22:15 EST 2014
On 2014-01-30 19:32, lists at notatla.org.uk wrote:
>
> Details .. you are perhaps assuming each of the N streams knows nothing
> about the others and the part that combines them is trusted to do that
> simple task.
Which is, of course, guaranteed to be true in any typical entropy
gathering system.
The more sources of entropy, the better. Even if some of them are
totally under the control of one adversary, that pretty much guarantees
that they will not be under the control of another adversary.
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