dol@ с iPad
> 19 дек. 2015 г., в 15:16, Dmitry Belyavsky <beld...@gmail.com> написал(а): > > 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. In this project hardware source is used for seeding software random generator only > > -- > SY, Dmitry Belyavsky
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