[704] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Random numbers from the '60's...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Tue May 6 11:09:23 1997
In-Reply-To: <199705060440.AAA26208@jekyll.piermont.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 00:03:29 -0700
To: perry@piermont.com
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
At 9:40 PM -0700 5/5/97, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>Again, I don't have any reason to believe that hashes aren't utterly
>safe for entropy distillation -- but until I see less equivocation
>from the theory guys, I'm at least a tad nervous.
Since I am not sure I believe in entropy/real randomness, I too am quite
nervous. However, combining sources with VERY conservative estimates of
available entropy seems to me to be the best we can do. I hope the theory
people think about this problem and come up with at least some warm fuzzies.
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