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On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:01:17PM -0700, Xin Li wrote:
> Well, 1:1 correspondence is when we fed full text to /dev/random,
> which we don't, right?  Only the first 4K gets consumed.  So:

That's right.

> Situation 1: we have 45K of plain text, and only first 4k is fed to
> /dev/random at about 5 bits of entropy per byte;
> 
> Situation 2: we have 45K of plain text, compress to e.g. 25K and only
> first 4k is fed to /dev/random at more than 7.6 bits of entropy per byte;

Best situation would be if yarrow properly consumed all the data
_and_ we fed less data with higher entropy in it ;-)