Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make cryptoapi non-optional?
From: Andries Brouwer
Date: Fri Aug 15 2003 - 02:59:31 EST
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 12:40:04AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> Andries Brouwer <aebr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 06:17:13PM -0600, Val Henson wrote:
> >
> > > entropy(x) >= entropy(x xor y)
> > > entropy(y) >= entropy(x xor y)
> >
> > Is this trolling? Are you serious?
>
> These lemma are absolutely true.
David, did you read this line:
> > Try to put z = x xor y and apply your insight to the strings x and z.
Let us do it. Let z be an abbreviation for x xor y.
The lemma that you believe in, applied to x and z, says
entropy(x) >= entropy(x xor z)
entropy(z) >= entropy(x xor z)
But x xor z equals y, so you believe for arbitrary strings x and y that
entropy(x) >= entropy(y)
entropy(x xor y) >= entropy(y).
This "lemma", formulated in this generality, is just plain nonsense.
Andries
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