It's a good point, and I was wondering why this "manual input" entropy is needed. I don't understand what it adds to the entropy implicitly grabbed from the system by the executable. If we assume that an adversary is able to monitor the system and replicate the entropy of the random generator used in the code, that adversary is probably able to grab the input to the process as well right? I'm interested in learning more about why you felt it was necessary to ask the user to provide some random input.
Cheers, Bastien On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 2:04 PM, Daira Hopwood via zapps-wg < zapps...@lists.z.cash.foundation> wrote: > On 18/01/18 13:46, Bastien Teinturier via zapps-wg wrote: > > Powers of Tau Attestation > > Notice that PowersOfTau_2.jpg leaks the additional entropy provided > to the computation. That's ok, it uses operating system entropy as > well; just noting that future participants might want to avoid that. > > -- > Daira Hopwood ⚧Ⓐ > > -- [image: stratumn-logo.jpg] Bastien Teinturier Senior Software Engineer Stratumn SAS, 1 bis Cité Paradis, 75010 Paris, France +33 6 28 57 71 59 • bast...@stratumn.com • stratumn.com <https://stratumn.com/careers> We are hiring <https://stratumn.com/careers> • Read about us <http://blog.stratumn.com> • Twitter <https://twitter.com/stratumnhq>
