From: Prasanth Kumar <kumar1@home.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: /dev/random -- can I enlarge the `randomness stock'?
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 17:06:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <392879F3.A4AA4104@home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.4.10.10005211917001.14371-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu
Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> On Sun, 21 May 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > What if you simply tuned a cheap FM receiver to just static and fed
> > > that into a soundcard. Then reading from /dev/dsp or something would
> > > return pretty good random data, right ?
> >
> > An attacker with a radio transmitter...
>
> Faraday's cage + mic with a nasty loopback. The real problem being: you
> want a random data with known distribution and none of these methods will
> give that.
<snip>
Random number source by radioactive decay ;-)
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/
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Prasanth Kumar
kumar1@home.com
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