[Cryptography] Proper Entropy Source

[Peter Todd]

On January 23, 2020 8:26:43 PM EST, Ryan Carboni <ryacko at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Thu Jan 23 11:25:55 EST 2020, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
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>>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
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>>public/private keypair the first time it is plugged into AC mains,
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>each outlet in your house has a different voltage

While it's true that the voltages will be different, every outlet will have the same phase (modulo the trivial 180° out of phase you see due to split power). So this is irrelevant to anything about random number generation.