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Re: [Cryptography] What's a Plausible Attack On Random Number
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Rogers)
Tue Nov 5 12:29:47 2013
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Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:41:56 +0000
From: Michael Rogers <michael@briarproject.org>
To: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>, Yaron Sheffer <yaronf.ietf@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <kmltj62xasascklyhm6aimk5.1383512947483@email.android.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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On 03/11/13 21:09, 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!)
ICMP echo has a data field...
Cheers,
Michael
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