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Re: chip-level randomness?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Wed Sep 19 15:06:57 2001
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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:42:28 -0700
To: Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com>,
Pawel Krawczyk <kravietz@aba.krakow.pl>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
At 1:12 AM -0700 9/19/01, Bram Cohen wrote:
>Of course, there's the religion of people who say that /dev/random output
>'needs' to contain 'all real' entropy, despite the absolute zero increase
>in security this results in and the disastrous effect it can have on
>performance.
If I am generating one time pads, I would certainly prefer /dev/random
output to /dev/urandom output. There is much less algorithm exposure.
(Although I do still have to worry about the whitening and combining
algorithms.)
Cheers - Bill
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