[Chaebixi]

So they created a giant side-channel by putting their entropy-source next to a public window?

[CorvusCrypto]

I'm guessing they use this alongside CSPRNGs. Would make sense given the theorem that states any random number XORed with even highly-ordered input maintains its entropy.

[londons_explore]

There are lots of people in the crypto world who have serious issues with XORing random sources together.

I haven't yet seen a good argument why it's a bad idea, and part of me thinks it might be a way to get more software using "rdrand" or other insecure sources unmodified.

[CorvusCrypto]

I think the bad idea stigma stems from people XORing from the same source. That totally is a bad idea, but if two sources are wholly independent, the maximum entropy in the combined systems is maintained.

To the people that just say it's never a good idea and scoff at any reasoning I'd remind them about OTPs. They are a special case related to this principle of XORing two independent sources together where only one input is random and it is proven mathematically to work.

[CodeWriter23]

Pretty sure an attacker would have to observe the array from the same point of perspective as the camera to mount a successful side channel attack.

[serf]

don't forget the room heating. I'm sure a wall of of 25-100w incandescents can get pretty toasty.

very green.