-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 David Shaw escribió: ... >> So my question is basically,.. >> If gpg would use this,... does it only improve the already existing >> entropy and randomness of the kernel PRNG? I mean that gpg somehow >> "merges" the different sources? >> Or is it more or less a,.. either use the kernel PRNG or the hardware >> RNG. > > The kernel merges several sources of entropy into the /dev/random pool. > The entropy key would just be another source (though a very prolific > source) of entropy.
I remember an example from one of the Bruce Schneier book, where 2 people (Alice and Bob, of course) wanted to get a random bit. They thought about each one flipping a coin, and then mixing the results. And Bob said "what if one of us don't do it randomly", and Alice said as long as one of the results was truly random, the final result would be random. So I suppose as long as the entropy generator output is mixed with other sources of entropy, it can't lower the quality of the final entropy. But of course, maybe I didn't understand it right. Best Regards -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJKrFK7AAoJEMV4f6PvczxAk6cIAKfa64/reW57fOGrHcAxapEI eOdCLI8MDvUVPVb5+dVVJL6WQXy6jbDAikkjbJuT8sSNaUpK8nkvPccVuI3mNVkg 8PExrLS2fnXqk3HtVWcXRd/TxoQNL454SZ9EXsjaRwqZvijDqpuwuwDmfg4EvWhY SYgzJCboRTnbJhzpaAt+z23IrdSLKdV5EvRtK6RPwjQkvu84Y+EJKiT8qdf11hQe sIzQQoi79k+sBuq8xn+JDRcSFbfjSIdU7erXDK9F2UchB9j7OXAtdqv3ChQN6Med LXfmuqfd+GUeuFYYaBMgKj5S5IFsTiBc3mitcj1ulstPy2MlRHI/KTX9h9R1OMI= =90/F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
