Timeline for Does cryptographically-secure pseudo random generators require a secure seed?
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| Apr 1, 2020 at 8:01 | comment | added | Radium | @mallea you can see the paper by Peter Gutmann: "Software Generation of Practically Strong Random Numbers" to get some broad idea. | |
| Apr 1, 2020 at 8:00 | comment | added | Radium | We can take help of some hardware device like Trusted Platform Module(TPM). Though using a TPM chip is to some extend aristocrat. ThinkPad comes with it. Most of the cases seeds, keys, random numbers are generated using some software mechanism. In this process you gather randomness from multiple events and enrich a randomness pool. Events are like keyboard key pressing duration, current time, mouse movement, data transfer rate, etc. You do some compilation on the randomness pool and get the values. In linux systems /dev/urandom and /dev/random works like a randomness pool. | |
| Apr 1, 2020 at 7:32 | comment | added | mallea | Can you elaborate on how to get a secret seed in practice? | |
| Apr 1, 2020 at 7:29 | history | answered | Radium | CC BY-SA 4.0 |