[Cryptography] Duh, why aren't most embedded TRNGs designed this way?

Christian Huitema huitema at huitema.net
Sun May 16 19:55:35 EDT 2021



> On May 16, 2021, at 11:34 AM, Ron Garret <ron at flownet.com> wrote:
> 
> By way of very stark contrast, it is borderline trivial to verify that a recording you made of yourself bears some resemblance to the sounds that you recorded and so with very high probability contains a certain minimal level of entropy per unit time.  You don’t have to trust anyone to implement that strategy.  IMHO that is the overriding consideration.

Uh, No, that's not true. Ever heard of the audio equivalent of watermarks, or steganography? It is pretty easy to modify some bits in the recording and yet it will sound the same to your ear.

-- Christian Huitema 




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