> The device get's powerd up at a random time for the attacker.
> That's entierly sufficient if you assume that your checksum function
> f(i) hat the property that there is no function g, where we have
> f(i+1)=g(f(i)), where g has a polynomial order over the time domain.
> i is unknown for the attacker.
So, your argument is that there is no point in all this
entropy collection anyway. So if everything is hunky dory,
why have /dev/random block under such a circumstance?
(which was the original poster's problem).
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