Introduce randommess in keypress timings

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Fri Oct 9 08:25:15 PDT 2015


Michael Nelson <nelson_mikel at yahoo.com> writes:

>Five minutes of Swedish death metal should get you around 256 bits.

Wrong entropy source, if you go for Norwegian black metal you get at least
1024 bits of entropy [0].  Having said that, Putin's foreign policy speeches
will get you at least 512 bits of entropy in the same time frame.

Peter.

[0] From an estimate done at Tons of Rock in Norway in June of this year.




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