[42738] in Cypherpunks
Re: Sources of randomness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Nov 2 18:15:48 1995
To: Carl Ellison <cme@tis.com>
Cc: tcmay@got.net, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Nov 1995 16:43:02 EST."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 17:59:24 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Carl Ellison writes:
> Almost all computers have a mouse and a normal signature, hand-written with
> a mouse, has great gobs of noise. (I'm still working on the little PC
> program to measure this -- but preliminary results show a minimum of 1 bit
> of noise per mouse sample -- or 200 bits per signature. Final results may
> get higher entropy rates, but I'll wait for the real results before
> claiming that.)
I have a brochure from a company that sells RS232 interfaced radiation
monitors for only a couple hundred bucks. The things even come with a
RNG demo program.
(The company is "Aware Electronics")
Perry
