Daniel J. Bernstein personal blog
Entropy Attacks
The conventional wisdom is that hashing more entropy sources can't hurt: if H is any modern cryptographic hash function then H(x,y,z) is at least as good a random number as H(x,y), no matter how awful z is. So we pile one source on top of another, hashing them all together and hoping that at least one of them is good.
- Points
- 102
- HN comments
- 32
- Submissions
- 1
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- 25 commenters
Security & PrivacyMath & Algorithms2025
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 2025 | Entropy Attacks by todsacerdoti | 102 | 32 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 35 Hacker News comments by 25 different people, from Mar 2014 to Sep 2026.
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- teravor · Sep 22, 2026
- wahern · Sep 22, 2026
- strenholme · Sep 22, 2026
- Taek · Sep 22, 2026
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