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Re: [Cryptography] What's a Plausible Attack On Random Number
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Outerbridge)
Tue Nov 5 12:22:06 2013
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From: Richard Outerbridge <outer@sympatico.ca>
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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 00:00:17 -0500
To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>, Yaron Sheffer <yaronf.ietf@gmail.com>,
"cryptography@metzdowd.com List" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>,
John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
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On 2013-11-02 (306), at 02:33:05, Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com> wro=
te:
> At 07:21 AM 11/1/2013, Jerry Leichter wrote:
>> On Nov 1, 2013, at 7:04 AM, Yaron Sheffer <yaronf.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
[=85.]
etc, etc.
Make it like an electrical fuse?
For heaven=92s sake, why not just a sensor next to and in line with the phy=
sical on/off switch like a hyper sensitive geiger counter, and widely avail=
able sources of benign radioactives, linked to a machine register?
The machine couldn=92t even turn itself on until it was random enough. Wou=
ld that be an acceptably low-level and early enough blocking State for suff=
iciently random seeds for all practical purposes?
__outer
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