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I think you missed the point of the comment, which wasn't about physical possession of a computer. You also make assumptions, such as chips being inside the co
by IncRnd 9y ago
I think you missed the point of the comment, which wasn't about physical possession of a computer.
You also make assumptions, such as chips being inside the computer, when they can in fact be in an outside environment-based RNG. The hairdryer example is the canonical and prototypical weakness in that particular type of "rng". I'll try to be explicit about that in the future.
- pkolaczk 9y agoI didn't write anything about environment-based RNG. RNG must be deterministic and seeded by preshared encryption key. One point of using a cryptographically secure RNG is that it should not be possible to learn the seed by observing the output of the RNG without bruteforcing the key.