__________________________________________________________________ On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 08:31:16AM +0200, Yan Zhu wrote: >> Is there a secure way to timeshare a single entropy source such as an >> entropy key? High-quality entropy sources are often fragile, expensive, or >> difficult to manufacture and maintain. If Alice has a friggin' amazing >> entropy source, and Bob wants to use it from afar, what would be the best >> way for Alice to let Bob retrieve data from the entropy source when she >> wasn't using it? On Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 8:34:54, Andy Isaacson replied >If Bob requires *really* *great* entropy, why would he trust a network l>ink (secured with a non information theoretically secure cipher such as >AES) to transmit his entropy securely? Since the network seeks to compress data at every turn, I think we can say it knows entropy when it sees it. ... >In short -- asking someone else to generate your random numbers is, of >course, a state of sin. God told me to tell you to stop submitting the query https://duckduckgo.com/?q=random+number+between+0+and+100