[Cryptography] High volume thermal entropy from an iPhone
James A. Donald
jamesd at echeque.com
Thu Dec 14 14:28:35 EST 2017
On 12/13/2017 7:52 PM, Alexandre Anzala-Yamajako wrote:
> IMO a statistical approach based on taking a bunch of data a saying
> essentially "I don t see any signs that it s not random" is not a good
> approach for entropy seeding.
We have theoretical reason to believe that the dark signal from a phone
camera is thermal noise.
You then take a look at it, and say "Yeah, looks like thermal noise"
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