More (mis)understandings of entropy?

[Jim Cheetham]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21185301

This discussion notes that VeraCrypt's latest version "Use Hardware RNG
based on CPU timing jitter "Jitterentropy" by Stephan Mueller as a good
alternative to CPU RDRAND (http://www.chronox.de/jent.html)"

The ycombinator discussion isn't convinced that this is a good idea, and
many people think that Vera Crypt have made a mistake ... so any comments
here would be welcome :-)

Also in typical web style the discussion diverges to the point that we're
identifying Satoshi as Paul Le Roux!

-jim
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