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by Tomte·12y ago·view on hn ↗
Yeah, I see it the same way. but at least you can put forward a highly theoretic argument there that just doesn't work with all the crypto algorithms we actually use.

Especially since: what are you doing with ssss? Usually splitting a private key to a non-information-theoretically secure block cipher, I guess. So you're back to square one.

I phrased that part poorly.

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Oh, sorry, no, everything you said made sense. I'm hazarding a guess that we read the same Thomas Pornin Stack Exchange comment. :)
I think you're right. I probably channeled him inadvertently.

I've collected lots of links to articles and man pages and so on about the issue, because I have been planning to write a coherent article about urandom vs. random.

And I'm pretty sure I remember what posting you mean.

Unfortunately, writing this article gets postponed again and again, just as finishing and sending in the second set of your crypto challenges... maybe before Christmas I'm going to find a few hours to do that.