On 09/29/2008 05:13 AM, IanG wrote: > My assumptions are: > > * I trust no single source of Random Numbers. > * I trust at least one source of all the sources. > * no particular difficulty with lossy combination.
> If I have N pools of entropy (all same size X) and I pool them > together with XOR, is that as good as it gets? Yes. The second assumption suffices to prove the result, since (random bit) XOR (anything) is random. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
