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Unfortunately, this statement is only true if your entropy sources are uncorrelated. If your new entropy source is correlated in precisely the right way to can
by spacehome 13y ago
Unfortunately, this statement is only true if your entropy sources are uncorrelated. If your new entropy source is correlated in precisely the right way to cancel with a previous entropy source, you reduce entropy of the result.
- Perseids 13y agoWith a cryptographic primitive like Yarrow finding this precisely right way should be infeasible, in the same way that finding a collision for a cryptographic hash function should be infeasible.