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Hence the caveat: "and hope/trust that the entropy you observe is unique, not copied to any other instances". I suppose it would take a centralized web service
by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Hence the caveat: "and hope/trust that the entropy you observe is unique, not copied to any other instances".
I suppose it would take a centralized web service to detect correlated unrandomness between servers. I am not personally willing to implement such a service right now.
- tptacek 15y agoEven if entropy isn't shared, you can't really test a CSPRNG by feeding it through "ent".