[Cryptography] High volume thermal entropy from an iPhone
Max Skibinsky
max at skibinsky.com
Sun Dec 17 17:19:28 EST 2017
> Have we any reason to suspect that whatever amount of thermal noise may
> be present in dark frames, is not also present in photographs of actual
> scenes with light and subjects?
Ray, you are correct - thermal noise in present in live scenery, and
in fact amount of noise is proportional to light intensity:
http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2017-December/033335.html
Well lit scenes (all the way up until oversatuation limit) on highest
resolution produce the most thermal noise per pixel.
- Max
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