[5293] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: depleting the random number generator -- repeated state
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Sat Jul 31 16:59:50 1999
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:41:12 -0700
To: Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>,
"Enzo Michelangeli" <em@who.net>
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Cc: "bram" <bram@gawth.com>, "Eugene Leitl" <Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>,
<cryptography@c2.net>
In-Reply-To: <14240.55026.239007.513222@lrz.de>
At 03:34 PM 7/29/99 -0700, Eugene Leitl wrote:
>Of course one would have to believe the CPU designer that it is true
>noise, and not pseudorandom.
One of the many uses of nitric acid. Ie, take random samples
apart and look at them. There are commercial places that
will do the lab work for you.
