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Re: [Cryptography] An alternative electro-mechanical entropy source
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sat Dec 14 00:19:07 2013
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Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 11:50:50 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
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On 2013-12-14 04:59, Steve Weis wrote:
> 3. I think an accelerometer measuring vibrations could be influenced
> by the CPU fans, which can be influenced by attackers running userland
> processes.
"Influencing" random number generation is unimportant, since all it does
is result in different random numbers that are equally unpredictable.
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