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Re: [Cryptography] An alternative electro-mechanical entropy source
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Simmons)
Fri Dec 13 17:05:36 2013
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From: Jeff Simmons <jsimmons@goblin.punk.net>
To: "Phillip Hallam-Baker" <hallam@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 12:46:33 -0800
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On Friday, December 13, 2013 11:14:33 am you wrote:
> I think we should go quantum.
>
> Take a really low intensity light source, stop it down to a single photon
> and put it through a mirror with 50% transmission with detectors for both
> transmission and reflection.
>
> To remove bias from the mirror, read pairs of bits and reject them if they
> are the same and take the first bit as the output bit otherwise.
>
> There is a literature on this stuff.
Radioactive decay. Just check on the cat.
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Jeff Simmons jsimmons@goblin.punk.net
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