[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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