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Re: [Cryptography] cheap sources of entropy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephan Neuhaus)
Thu Jan 30 02:04:31 2014
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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 07:50:41 +0100
From: Stephan Neuhaus <stephan.neuhaus@tik.ee.ethz.ch>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On 30.01.2014 06:36, John Denker wrote:
> Well, that's basically the right idea. I will assume(*) that
> by "mix" you mean something like a good cryptologic hash.
Taking Dan's original formulation of "N bit streams, at least one of
which is truly unpredictable", a simple XOR would be enough.
Fun,
Stephan
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