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Re: [Cryptography] cheap sources of entropy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Mon Feb 3 19:37:39 2014
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Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:11:05 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <Jamesd@echeque.com>
To: Ben Laurie <ben@links.org>, Tom Mitchell <mitch@niftyegg.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAG5KPzyMwSd-HG67HQSDp=bevTS-iaYN_eYUXVDqSOABg1B7xg@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>,
"cryptography@metzdowd.com" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>,
Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
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On 2014-02-04 08:28, Ben Laurie wrote:
> HOLY CRAP! Enough of the rhetoric. Has anyone measured anything, or is
> this all opinion?
Well I looked at the timing data on a few systems for the crypto Kong
randomness collector, and they passed the eyeball test. Looked like
there was a shitload[1] of entropy there
[1] a shitload being several pooploads.
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