[669] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Random numbers from the '60's...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Thu May 1 19:52:38 1997
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 14:41:13 -0700
To: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: lavarand@sgi.com, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199704300207.TAA15902@servo.qualcomm.com>
At 07:07 PM 4/29/97 -0700, Phil Karn wrote:
>>What scares me is http://lavarand.sgi.com/pat_trade.html
>Somebody really ought to burst their, uh, bubble and point to the
>/dev/random code that's been in Linux for several years now. And in
>KA9Q NOS for some time before that.
>Who needs a camera and a lava lamp when soundblaster cards with noisy
>microphone preamps are nearly universal?
The Lava Lamp is nice and visual, though.
On the other hand, isn't the noise from blowing on a microphone chaotic,
due to various turbulence effects? It's definitely prior art,
as is hashing the physical-world input data.
# Thanks; Bill
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