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Re: [Cryptography] What's a Plausible Attack On Random Number
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Leichter)
Sun Nov 3 18:14:33 2013
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From: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>
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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 18:09:08 -0500
To: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
Cc: Yaron Sheffer <yaronf.ietf@gmail.com>,
"cryptography@metzdowd.com List" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>,
John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>, David Mercer <radix42@gmail.com>
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On Nov 3, 2013, at 4:09 PM, Kent Borg wrote:
> 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!)
How many bits in a cupful of entropy?
-- Jerry
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