[51474] in Cypherpunks
Re: Truelly Random Numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mutant Rob)
Tue Mar 5 21:28:42 1996
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 21:12:47 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Mutant Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
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Tim Fulbright wrote:
>
> Now I, a lurker for two months, am truelly confused! L. Deitweiler must be
> right. Surely one of you cyperpunk fellows could hack together a dongle with
> some kind of AD converter and buffer ram to gather a Truelly Random Bitstream
> off the environment every couple of milliseconds easier than this raindrop
> scheme or recording the fan, you're haviung me on!. Let's go back [..]
The raindrop scheme was (politely) laughed off. As for the fan recording
scheme, it's a good make-do-with-what-you-already-have method, as opposed
to buying and/or building a card.
A 'simple AD converter' isn't so simple. Especially if you want to be
sure you really have random noise and not something else that just looks
random.
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