Dear Basil, On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Basil Dolmatov <d...@reedcat.net> wrote:
> > > dol@ с iPad > > > 19 дек. 2015 г., в 1:22, Jacob <ja...@edamaker.com> написал(а): > > > > > > A question to the experts: > > > > I fully understand the trust gained by having a custom made external > analog TRNG as we do here, but wouldn't be better to XOR the bitstream > received from our generator with the one embedded in the CPU(*)? > What means 'better' in this case? > Mixing two really good sources of entropy does not make output 'better' > considering entropy quality. > This mixing can give one some hope that having mediocre entropy sources > one can make the result better. > > Having a good source of entropy I can not see any reason for mixing it > with other data. > If software can obtain random data from the system, it may be useful to add the true-random data to the standard system sources of it instead of using the different hardware devices directly. -- SY, Dmitry Belyavsky
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