[Cryptography] cheap sources of entropy

James A. Donald Jamesd at echeque.com
Thu Jan 30 17:46:11 EST 2014


On 2014-01-31 02:29, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> Of course, if you *know* what the other stream is, you can completely recover the truly unpredictable one.

no, attacker cannot, and defender does not care.

The more entropy sources the better, even if some of them are completely 
predictable to some attackers, and some of them are completely 
controlled by some attackers.


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