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Thu Aug 07 04:36:44 UTC 2014 <RebeccaBitcoin> I have an entropy question
Tue Aug 05 03:56:44 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo http://contravex.com/2014/07/17/proof-that-mycelium-knows-how-to-make-a-better-rng-for-its-entropy-dongle-and-isnt/http:// << this link is broken
Fri Aug 01 22:48:05 UTC 2014 <ColinT> "Useable entropy"?
Fri Aug 01 22:47:09 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> the major point of difference being that out of the glass, of water or of emotion, one can extract usable entropy. not so from logic, at all.
Tue Jul 29 05:00:34 UTC 2014 <benkay> <RebeccaBitcoin> is that unethical // brainwallets must have adequate entropy, and no JS doth not provide.
Sun Jul 27 02:13:46 UTC 2014 <kuzetsa> heat death of the universe resets everything to a state of entropy, including politics
Sun Jul 20 23:14:15 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: this is actually a traditional means of generating 'hardware entropy' on a pc. i rediscovered it as a kid, thought i 'had something nice'
Sun Jul 20 23:13:46 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> it's equalizing over time. hey asciilifeform ! i just got some entropy!
Sun Jul 20 20:42:38 UTC 2014 <BingoBoingo> do you read this thing like i do, ie, a nsa-sponsored attempt to survive the "everyone has cardano rng on board" apocalypse by making good entropy sources still circumventable ? << I read either that or some kernel afficianado who would buy a unix pacemaker
Sun Jul 20 20:38:57 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> sciilifeform do you read this thing like i do, ie, a nsa-sponsored attempt to survive the "everyone has cardano rng on board" apocalypse by making good entropy sources still circumventable ?
Sun Jul 20 20:38:56 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> Dropping out the egd support made me puzzled for a moment, but then I realized that there is no point in using egd to feed the randomness to the process, you just need to feed entropy to the kernel, and let the process get it normally. I have had, unfortunately, quite a bit of experience with entropy-generating daemons, and I wonder if this might be the right time to suggest getting a new multi-source daemon out." << a
Sun Jul 20 20:07:04 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> no, the contrary. in the quest to make determinism infeasible, it requires some sort of entropy reservoir outside-the-world.
Sun Jul 20 20:05:53 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> one of the core (if unknown) principles underscoring all creation is that the qty of entropy in a system remains the same if it's cut in half.
Sun Jul 20 20:05:11 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> <decimation> any source of finite entropy would eventually exhaust << this breaks physics.
Sun Jul 20 19:49:50 UTC 2014 <decimation> any source of finite entropy would eventually exhaust
Sun Jul 20 19:29:59 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> what's this, a way to reduce key entropy to breakable levels ?
Sun Jul 20 16:59:33 UTC 2014 <assbot> Simtec Electronics Entropy Key: USB True Random Number Generator
Sun Jul 20 07:24:05 UTC 2014 <Vexual> entropy is irrelevantr oto these soothsaysers
Sun Jul 20 07:23:24 UTC 2014 <jurov> next time i see someone reading from bones or coffee stain imma pester them whether they have tested past output for enough entropy
Sun Jul 20 07:03:28 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> there's no free entropy lunch.