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Under what circumstances would xoring `x` and `y` not produce a result with entropy at least as great as `x`?


In the very obvious cases where x == y, or x == not y, or x == y + 1, or many other correlations.


Only if y is known to be dependent on x. If y is random but just so happens to be `not x` or `== x` then that won't make the result any less random.

0 is as random a number as 529890873740477 is.


Single numbers don't really have entropy at all, so that is not something it even makes sense to talk about.




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