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Extracting Entropy?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Mon Jun 19 17:55:02 2000
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 22:37:46 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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OK, so if I've got a passphrase of arbitrary length, and I wish to
condense it to make a key of length n bits (n > 160), what's the
approved method(s) of doing that?
I assume it goes without saying that we wish to preserve as much entropy
as we can, but I'll say it anyway.
Cheers,
Ben.
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