[42607] in Cypherpunks
Re: /dev/random for FreeBSD [was: Re: /dev/random for Linux]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Brickner)
Tue Oct 31 17:58:20 1995
To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Tue, 31 Oct 1995 19:15:35 +0200.)
<199510311715.TAA05821@grumble.grondar.za>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 16:47:09 -0600
From: Scott Brickner <sjb@universe.digex.net>
Mark Murray writes:
>Can they predict thermal noise in a cheap transistor? ]:->
As Perry pointed out in the last round on hardware noise generators, they
may not be able to predict it, but they *may* be able to generate a field
which will *influence* it.
It's difficult to know for sure if your noise source is really random,
and to what degree.
