[117571] in Cypherpunks
Re: Build a better OTP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Mon Sep 6 12:30:11 1999
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:13:43 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199909061613.SAA05886@mail.replay.com>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
> Has anyone designed a true random number generator that runs at high
> speed? Something that could fill a CD or DVD in a reasonable amount of
> time?
Yes, there's one out by a little company called Intel. You might have
heard of them.
They're building it into their chip sets so if you buy a new computer
you'll probably get it automatically. Soon, random bits will essentially
be ubiquitous. Anyone who cares can have all the random numbers he wants.
The data rate is in the megabytes per hour range so it would take a few
days to fill a CD.
