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very high speed hardware RNG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Sun Dec 28 20:12:41 2008
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:12:09 -0500
Semiconductor laser based RNG with rates in the gigabits per second.
http://www.physorg.com/news148660964.html
My take: neat, but not as important as simply including a decent
hardware RNG (even a slow one) in all PC chipsets would be.
Perry
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