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Re: building a true RNG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Crowley)
Wed Jul 24 11:35:28 2002
To: "John S. Denker" <jsd@monmouth.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: Paul Crowley <paul@ciphergoth.org>
Date: 24 Jul 2002 10:10:26 +0100
In-Reply-To: "John S. Denker"'s message of "Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:14:24 -0400"
"John S. Denker" <jsd@monmouth.com> writes:
> > Is there any point in compressing the video before running it through a
> > cryptohash?
>
> There might be a minor point, namely computational efficiency.
I can't believe any compression software could be as fast as just
feeding the signal straight into SHA-1.
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