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Randomness with OneRNG and NeuG

Randomness with OneRNG and NeuG

Posted Jun 26, 2015 9:47 UTC (Fri) by gerdesj (subscriber, #5446)
In reply to: Randomness with OneRNG and NeuG by andresfreund
Parent article: Randomness with OneRNG and NeuG

"If you're indeed talking about the amazon thing, that sounds far easier to influence by some TLA than noise in your soundcard, delays in your hdd positioning, etc."

It was a joke and it turns out someone else has already told it and YouTubed it.

My real points were:
* A decent source of entropy still has to travel from the source to the thing that consumes it, via routes that can be compromised
* A source that could create decent entropy may not do so (some of my "Turks" generates far more coin tosses than the rest - perhaps by hitching up a stream cipher)
* Silly ideas like "tweaking" or "augmenting" existing algos are doomed to failure - my DH improvement is rather unlikely to create a usable DH param!

Cheers
Jon


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