Re: /dev/random -- can I enlarge the `randomness stock'?

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Sun May 21 2000 - 19:21:48 EDT

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On Sun, 21 May 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > What if you simply tuned a cheap FM receiver to just static and fed
> > that into a soundcard. Then reading from /dev/dsp or something would
> > return pretty good random data, right ?
>
> An attacker with a radio transmitter...

Faraday's cage + mic with a nasty loopback. The real problem being: you
want a random data with known distribution and none of these methods will
give that.

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