Re: [Cryptography] Randomness for crypto, github repositories

2015-10-21 Thread dj
I've only looked at it briefly, but I have a question.. Are you trying to use the GCM Galois multiply as an entropy extractor? I don't know of any proof that it is a good extractor for any class of entropic data. That doesn't mean there isn't one, but I've not heard of one. > I've just created gi

Re: [Cryptography] Randomness for crypto, github repositories

2015-10-21 Thread Sandy Harris
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 1:06 PM, wrote: > I've only looked at it briefly, but I have a question.. Are you trying to > use the GCM Galois multiply as an entropy extractor? Yes, the basic idea is to use a series of GCM multiplies over the pool data to replace the hashing of that data in the curre