@Peter K Agreed that a patient attacker is the weak version of it. The stronger reason to mix vendors is that a same vendor quorum shares one failure mode, so a two of three stops being two independent checks and collapses into one. Nobody has to wait for anything, they get the whole quorum in a single break.
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But that was always the context I was talking about for these canarys. I want to know when 1 of my 2 of 3 is compromised so I can take it to different entropy sources/seeds/vendors/whatever so I can re-harden it as best I can. if they're patient enough to wait till they've broken two of my 3, I'm screwed anyway.