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
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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