[117578] in Cypherpunks
Re: Build a better OTP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William H. Geiger III)
Mon Sep 6 14:36:56 1999
Message-Id: <199909061749.NAA24633@domains.invweb.net>
From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 12:49:27 -0500
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <199909061613.SAA05886@mail.replay.com>
Reply-To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
In <199909061613.SAA05886@mail.replay.com>, on 09/06/99
at 06:13 PM, Anonymous <nobody@replay.com> said:
>> 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.
Yes but is it trustworthy?
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