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Re:A wall of lava lamps helps encrypt the internet by jstanley on Sunday December 31, 2017 @03:15PM (#16042628)
It leaks information at any angle.
Re:A wall of lava lamps helps encrypt the internet by stouset on Sunday December 31, 2017 @05:06PM (#16043272)
Doesn’t really matter. With modern CSPRNGs, even if one input is compromised you’re still as strong as the remaining entropy (as long as those sources are statistically independent from the compromised one).

If this was the only source of randomness it might be a problem, but if they’re `cat`ting it into `/dev/random` as an external source, it can only really improve things. Even if someone were to compromise the feed from the office to the datacenter, it wouldn’t matter since they’d have to know the internal RNG state in order to “negate” its randomness with the lava lamp feed. If they have that, you’re already lost anyway.