Am Donnerstag, 28. November 2013, 10:19:08 schrieb Joachim Strömbergson: Hi Joachim,
> Aloha! > > Stephan Mueller wrote: > > I would not concur with this statment: at runtime, you cannot verify > > > > entropy beyond simple pattern checks. Moreover, compression (i.e. > > > > whitening) is not meaningful when mixing it into /dev/random as it > > has its own whitening function. > > What I have argumented for is to have sanity checks on the sources to at > least capture pathological cases. Things like stuck at zero/one. Then > one could add simpler tests to detect major bias and values spanning > much less than the value space. In this case, I fully concur that such tests are feasible and desireable. Ciao Stephan -- | Cui bono? | _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
