[4051] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Intel announcements at RSA '99
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eli Brandt)
Fri Jan 22 14:32:29 1999
To: Colin Plumb <colin@nyx.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 14:05:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Eli Brandt <eli@v.gp.cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199901210204.TAA24869@nyx10.nyx.net> from "Colin Plumb" at Jan 20, 99 07:04:27 pm
Reply-To: eli+@cs.cmu.edu
Colin Plumb wrote:
> I didn't think of it at the time, but this has the added bonus that
> deterministic systems have a harder time generating non-white noise, so
> if you look at the bit stream and see a noise spectrum that corresponds
> to the (claimed) underlying physical source, that is some assurance
> against cheating.
Be careful. You give me a physical source's power spectrum, I'll give
you a digital filter to color the PRNG to match.
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Eli Brandt | eli+@cs.cmu.edu | http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eli/
