On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:40 PM, IanG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonathan Katz wrote: >> I think it depends on what you mean by "N pools of entropy". > > > I can see that my description was a bit weak, yes. Here's a better > view, incorporating the feedback: > > If I have N people, each with a single pool of entropy, > and I pool each of their contributions together with XOR, > is that as good as it gets?
I think you need to define what you mean by "as good as it gets". Clearly XOR loses entropy that might be there, so on the measure of "good == most entropy", it is not. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
