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Re: [Cryptography] What's a Plausible Attack On Random Number
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent Borg)
Sun Nov 3 18:12:24 2013
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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:09:07 -0500
From: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
To: Yaron Sheffer <yaronf.ietf@gmail.com>
Cc: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>,
"cryptography@metzdowd.com List" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>,
John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>, David Mercer <radix42@gmail.com>
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Yaron Sheffer suggested:
> Suppose I'm an (entropy) poor home router in an (entropy) poor home,
> with just one desktop machine behind me. We could have the PC send some
>random material in the DHCP *request*, and the router is free to mix it
> into its very shallow entropy pool.
Starting to sound so neighborly: whenever you think a neighbor could maybe use some entropy, offer a little. (To be mixed with other sources!)
-kb
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