Re: using white noise for cryptography
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, sean finney wrote:
> > 2. is there a way to inject bytes into the entropy pool of the
> > linux kernel?
If you're going to do it by sampling the noise in an audio card, you better
analyze the output to check if it is indeed crypto-strong randomness. Your
sampling module might need to do some math work before giving those bits to
the entropy pool.
And do _not_ overestimate the randomness of your noise. That will weaken
your random generator a lot.
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