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klodolph
on Dec 10, 2013
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“We cannot trust” Intel and Via’s chip-based crypt...
That doesn't reduce entropy, it just fails to increase it.
Peaker
on Dec 10, 2013
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It might reduce it, if it XORs away entropy that was previously XOR'd into it.
klodolph
on Dec 11, 2013
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You're talking about entropy pools as if they just XOR'd their inputs, which is demonstrably false.
Peaker
on Dec 11, 2013
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Isn't a common way of combining entropy sources just XOR'ing them together?
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