using alternate sources of entropy

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Sat May 11 10:58:54 CEST 2013


On Fri, 10 May 2013 23:49, pete at petertodd.org said:

> I'm assuming that provided a sufficient number of bits whose values are
> unknown to any adversary are added to the pool all subsequent

The question is whether this data is indeed unknown.  Random number
generators are are common problem for severe crypto failures.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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