[Cryptech Tech] Avalanche noise test boards

[Benedikt Stockebrand]

Hi Peter and list,

Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz> writes:

> Both Yarrow and Fortuna assume an extremely unlikely threat model
> [...]

fair enough, but the difference between the two that really caught my
eye was that Yarrow needs an estimate of how much entropy the noise it
is being fed as seed actually contains.  Fortuna doesn't need that.

My point is not that Fortuna should be used these days, but that anybody
still using Yarrow ten years after a significantly improved successor
has been published is obviously not keeping up with current advances in
the area.


Cheers,

    Benedikt

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