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Re: using white noise for cryptography



At 2003-03-14T00:50:17Z, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:

> And do _not_ overestimate the randomness of your noise. That will weaken
> your random generator a lot.

I'm not sure I follow.  How would adding an entropy source weaken the
system's randomness?  Even if the audio input were a perfect sine wave,
would adding that into the mix result in sin()+random?
-- 
Kirk Strauser
In Googlis non est, ergo non est.



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