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Re: [Cryptography] Random number generation influenced, HW RNG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Wed Sep 11 13:17:37 2013
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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:04:56 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On 2013-09-10 4:30 PM, ianG wrote:
> The question of whether one could simulate a raw physical source is
> tantalising. I see diverse opinions as to whether it is plausible,
> and thinking about it, I'm on the fence.
Let us consider that source of colored noise with which we are most
familiar: The human voice. Efforts to realistically simulate a human
voice have not been very successful. The most successful approach has
been the ransom note approach, merging together a lot of small clips of
an actual human voice.
A software simulated raw physical noise source would have to run
hundreds of thousands times faster.
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