[107750] in Cypherpunks
CDR: rng, linux, soundcards, vernam cipher, ambassadors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Fri Jan 22 11:41:54 1999
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:25:31 +0100
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
At 03:23 PM 1/21/99 -0700, Jim Burnes - Denver wrote:
>Random number generators on chip I'm not so sure about. All
>I know is that Linux supports this as a device. For anyone
>with a moderately interesting OS this should be transparent
>(and inspectable).
A $20 sound card is capable of capturing analog FM radio hiss,
and with simple conditioning you get very good, physics-based
randoms.
(Add a $200 cd rewriter and you're ready to chat with
your contact for a year. The software would even be exportable :-)
