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

From: Prasanth Kumar (kumar1@home.com)
Date: Sun May 21 2000 - 20:06:11 EDT

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    Alexander Viro wrote:
    >
    > 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.
    <snip>

    Random number source by radioactive decay ;-)

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Prasanth Kumar
kumar1@home.com

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