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combining entropy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (IanG)
Fri Oct 24 08:23:27 2008
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:13:39 +0200
From: IanG <iang@systemics.com>
To: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
If I have N pools of entropy (all same size X) and I pool them
together with XOR, is that as good as it gets?
My assumptions are:
* I trust no single source of Random Numbers.
* I trust at least one source of all the sources.
* no particular difficulty with lossy combination.
iang
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