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Re:NeuG USB True Random Number Generator by tptacek on Friday January 05, 2018 @02:25PM (#16080917)
This is a feature of basically every modern CSPRNG and a basic consequence of the crypto primitives we use to design CSPRNGs.
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Re:NeuG USB True Random Number Generator by sowbug on Friday January 05, 2018 @04:27PM (#16081812)
That's good to hear. It seems intuitive that it should be impractical to usefully influence randomness; if I can predict anything after a whitening step, isn't that whitening step horribly broken? But I've learned to squelch my intuition when it comes to cryptography.

(Now would be a great time to plug Matasano...)

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Re:NeuG USB True Random Number Generator by tptacek on Friday January 05, 2018 @04:35PM (#16081894)
Well, several years ago would be a good time to plug Matasano, since it doesn't exist anymore. :)
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Re:NeuG USB True Random Number Generator by sowbug on Friday January 05, 2018 @06:54PM (#16082827)
:) I meant the crypto challenge, which I hope would give someone like me a little more confidence in that field.
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