[Cryptography] Proper Entropy Source

Richard Outerbridge outer at interlog.com
Thu Jan 23 16:45:37 EST 2020


> On 2020-01-23 (23), at 13:01:24, Patrick Chkoreff <pc at fexl.com> wrote:
> 
> John Denker via cryptography wrote on 1/22/20 6:53 AM:

[ …. ]

> Is it too much to ask to seed a new machine somewhat
> manually from some outside source when it first starts up?
> 
> — Patrick

Yes.  Save & except the HSMs.  They should always be single points of failure.

Fuses, as it were.
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