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Re: [Cryptography] [RNG] on RNGs, VM state, rollback, etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sat Oct 26 01:34:32 2013
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Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 05:23:48 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
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On 2013-10-25 22:12, John Kelsey wrote:
> This gets back to the threat model discussion. If your attacker is
> watching you from the outside as you generate your key, then
> interacting with stuff over the local net won't help you much.
> (You may get a bit or two of entropy from the attacker not being
> able to know exactly which clock-tick you were on when the interrupt
> was serviced, but not much.).
It does not take very long to get 128 interrupts.
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