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Re: [Cryptography] cheap sources of entropy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Thu Jan 30 18:03:40 2014
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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 08:46:11 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <Jamesd@echeque.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On 2014-01-31 02:29, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> Of course, if you *know* what the other stream is, you can completely recover the truly unpredictable one.
no, attacker cannot, and defender does not care.
The more entropy sources the better, even if some of them are completely
predictable to some attackers, and some of them are completely
controlled by some attackers.
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