Re:Entropy and the NetBSD Kernel
by loeg on Sunday May 17, 2020 @07:33PM
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+1 on the mix-with-SHA or something like it paragraph.
Re: Entropy; in a system RNG design, entropy is typically considered relative to an attacker. In some very real sense, the "total entropy" of the system is only the unpredictability of the generator to the most knowledgeable attacker.
Re: Entropy; in a system RNG design, entropy is typically considered relative to an attacker. In some very real sense, the "total entropy" of the system is only the unpredictability of the generator to the most knowledgeable attacker.