Re: OneRNG: Open Hardware Random Number Generator

From	nobody@nowhere.invalid (natp)
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: OneRNG: Open Hardware Random Number Generator
Date	2014-11-01 01:52 +0000
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Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> wrote:

>On 28/10/2014 9:15 PM, Rich wrote:
>> http://onerng.info/
>
>
>"You can ask it to dump the current firmware to you, you can see all the 
>components on the board."
>
>Um, no. That's a newbie mistake. It involves trusting the firmware to 
>tell the truth about its contents.
>
>Sylvia.

You need a much simpler circuit that you can trust, such as this:
http://web.jfet.org/hw-rng.html

Hard to envision the NSA putting a back door in a 2N3904 transistor.

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OneRNG: Open Hardware Random Number Generator Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-10-28 10:15 +0000
  Re: OneRNG: Open Hardware Random Number Generator Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-10-28 15:17 -0700
    Re: OneRNG: Open Hardware Random Number Generator Tonton Th <tTh@nowhere.invalid> - 2014-10-28 22:34 +0000
      Re: OneRNG: Open Hardware Random Number Generator Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-10-28 19:15 -0400
        Re: OneRNG: Open Hardware Random Number Generator Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-10-28 18:43 -0700
      Re: OneRNG: Open Hardware Random Number Generator Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> - 2014-10-29 15:41 +0100
        Re: OneRNG: Open Hardware Random Number Generator scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-10-29 18:11 +0000
        Re: OneRNG: Open Hardware Random Number Generator Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-10-29 16:06 -0400
          Re: OneRNG: Open Hardware Random Number Generator scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-10-30 17:38 +0000
            Re: OneRNG: Open Hardware Random Number Generator Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-10-30 20:39 +0200
              Re: OneRNG: Open Hardware Random Number Generator scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-11-03 20:08 +0000
                Re: OneRNG: Open Hardware Random Number Generator Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-03 22:12 +0200
  Re: OneRNG: Open Hardware Random Number Generator Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-10-31 16:52 +1100
    Re: OneRNG: Open Hardware Random Number Generator nobody@nowhere.invalid (natp) - 2014-11-01 01:52 +0000

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