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Re: CPRNGs are still an issue.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Damien Miller)
Sat Dec 13 18:37:46 2008
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:42:57 +1100 (EST)
From: Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <494062FB.8070604@echeque.com>
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, James A. Donald wrote:
> If one uses a higher resolution counter - sub
> microsecond - and times multiple disk accesses, one gets
> true physical randomness, since disk access times are
> effected by turbulence, which is physically true
> random.
Until someone runs your software on a SSD instead of a HDD. Oops.
-d
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