On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:01:17PM -0700, Xin Li wrote: > Well, 1:1 correspondence is when we fed full text to /dev/random, > which we don't, right? Only the first 4K gets consumed. So:
That's right. > Situation 1: we have 45K of plain text, and only first 4k is fed to > /dev/random at about 5 bits of entropy per byte; > > Situation 2: we have 45K of plain text, compress to e.g. 25K and only > first 4k is fed to /dev/random at more than 7.6 bits of entropy per byte; Best situation would be if yarrow properly consumed all the data _and_ we fed less data with higher entropy in it ;-) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-rc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
