On Jan 23, 2014, at 3:19 PM, Michael Hammer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmmm... that makes it sound rather subjective. The value of an individual bit from an entropy source is subjective. > If we don't have objective measures, > then who is to say that one's randomness is better or worse than another? Once there is agreement on the amount of entropy in a given set of initial bits, there are objective measures about the effectiveness of ways to distribute them. > Understand that user data input may or may not have good entropy. > But, hope that would be the only source of any output entropy, > given good encryption algorithms and random keys. Adding additional sources of output entropy, if done correctly, is *always* at least as good as only using the initial bits. --Paul Hoffman
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