Random numbers from CPU execution time jitter
Random numbers from CPU execution time jitter
Posted Apr 30, 2015 14:26 UTC (Thu) by tpo (subscriber, #25713)In reply to: Random numbers from CPU execution time jitter by epa
Parent article: Random numbers from CPU execution time jitter
Your assertion is wrong unless you qualify it more precisely.
Let's say you have some entropy pool and add /dev/null as a further source to it. Now, depending on the size of the pipe that sucks randomness out of that pool it might be that the pool is empty - except for /dev/null.
So if instead of blocking you now continue to feed the pipe from /dev/null, then randomness disappears into complete determinism.
So I think you have to explain how the output of your entropy pool is actually mixed before asserting that "it never can make things worse".
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