[Cryptography] Proper Entropy Source

Ryan Carboni ryacko at gmail.com
Thu Jan 23 20:26:43 EST 2020


On Thu Jan 23 11:25:55 EST 2020, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
>
>This is true only *if* the 100 sources are uncorrelated with each
>other.  But if they are based on timing, and all of the "clocks" on a
>particular "system on a chip" are driven by a single master oscillator

>public/private keypair the first time it is plugged into AC mains,


each outlet in your house has a different voltage

a presumption based on the house I live in

regardless, unless it is network boot, a fallback can be reading from
the boot sector and using latency from it


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