On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:01:17PM -0700, Xin Li wrote:
> Situation 1: we have 45K of plain text, and only first 4k is fed to
> /dev/random at about 5 bits of entropy per byte;
>
> Situation 2: we have 45K of plain text, compress to e.g. 25K and only
> first 4k is fed to /dev/random at more than 7.6 bits of entropy per byte;
Where do these bits of entropy per byte values come from? Their rather
high.
FYI, the Yarrow design limits the seed entropy density to a 0.5
multiplier.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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