Re: monitoring entropy

Ingo Molnar (mingo@pc7537.hil.siemens.at)
Wed, 15 Oct 1997 22:16:19 +0100 (MET)


On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, linux kernel account wrote:

> Right, but you can generate cryptographily strong output. I.e. output that
> is very difficult to figure out.. Random = Impossible to guess.
> Crpytographicly strong = very difficult to guess. Very difficuly = more
> computer power then your or I could ever see..

i'd just like to see someone state that 'the difficulty of cracking the
output does not scale with the amount of output'. I've shown you a simple
crypto system that is safe, but the probability to guess the key scales
with the amount of output... just about linearly, with a constant
multiplicator that is quite small.

-- mingo