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Re: entropy depletion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Tue Jan 11 10:43:56 2005
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:32:10 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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William Allen Simpson wrote:
>> Why then restrict it to non-communications usages?
>
>
> Because we are starting from the postulate that observation of the
> output could (however remotely) give away information about the
> underlying state of the entropy generator(s).
Surely observation of /dev/urandom's output also gives away information?
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