David Honig wrote:
[I would not feel particularly comfortable merely combining the bits
of a single sample -- distilling entropy using a hash function and
large blocks of input would probably work out better. I'm sure there
will be plenty of opinions around here. --Perry]
A secure hash
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At 03:31 PM 2/14/01 +0200, Paul N wrote:
It is secure to make a onetime pad using 16 bit input from soundcard using
the following algorithm?
Each bit of the output is the result of XOR-ing all 16 bits from the input
sample... so, for making one
It is secure to make a onetime pad using 16 bit input from soundcard using the
following algorithm?
Each bit of the output is the result of XOR-ing all 16 bits from the input
sample... so, for making one byte of "one-time pad", I need 8 samples (16*8
bits or 16 bytes) of input?
Of course I
At 03:31 PM 2/14/01 +0200, Paul N wrote:
It is secure to make a onetime pad using 16 bit input from soundcard using
the
following algorithm?
Each bit of the output is the result of XOR-ing all 16 bits from the input
sample... so, for making one byte of "one-time pad", I need 8 samples (16*8
