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Re: OneRNG: Open Hardware Random Number Generator

From Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: OneRNG: Open Hardware Random Number Generator
Date 2014-10-29 16:06 -0400
Organization National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Christian Neukirchen wrote:

> Tonton Th <tTh@nowhere.invalid> writes:
>
>> On 2014-10-28, Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://onerng.info/
>>>>
>>>>    OneRNG collects entropy from an avalanche diode circuit, and from a
>>>>    channel-hopping RF receiver. It even has a "tinfoil hat" to prevent RF
>>>>    interference - you can remove the hat in order to visually verify the
>>>>    components being used.
>>>
>>> Seems neat but there are already many ways to gather entropy from sound
>>> cards and other parts of the system, which satisfy randomness.  If
>>
>>    No audio input on a RasPi.
>
> But a native RNG:
> http://scruss.com/blog/2013/06/07/well-that-was-unexpected-the-raspberry-pis-hardware-random-number-generator/
>
That's interesting.  I know I've seen references to "urandom" as Linux is 
booting, some reference to a random source that isn't in all hardware.

   Michael

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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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