[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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