3 Jan
2014
3 Jan
'14
2:20 p.m.
Luigi Rosa wrote:
With headless and/or virtual servers the issue is even bigger because
Linux could not be able to collect enough entropy to seed /dev/urandom
Is this a meaningful statement? How do you measure the "entropy" of a seed (which I take to be a string)? And if you can, is it true that you can decrypt a string with low entropy?
Nb What you say may be perfectly valid, I'd just like to know exactly what it means, if indeed it has a mathematical meaning.
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Timothy Murphy
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School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland