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Re: [Cryptography] Thoughts on hardware randomness sources
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sandy Harris)
Tue Sep 10 15:07:47 2013
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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:01:44 -0400
From: Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Marcus D. Leech <mleech@ripnet.com> wrote:
> I wonder what people's opinions are on things like the randomsound daemon
> that is available for Linux.
I have not looked at that. A well thought out & well documented
RNG based on a sound card is:
http://www.av8n.com/turbid/paper/turbid.htm
I wrote a very simple one (perhaps not yet trustworthy because
it has not had much analysis) based on timer calls. Its documentation
discusses a few others:
ftp://ftp.cs.sjtu.edu.cn:990/sandy/maxwell/
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