Author: Keith Evans
Date: 15:11:20 02/19/02
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On February 18, 2002 at 20:34:09, Dann Corbit wrote: >So did the Commodore 64. You just cranked up the white noise generator and then >read the sound port. > Actually designing a good (crytographically secure) hardware based "true" random number generator is actually quite difficult. It is a task that should only be assigned to the very best of engineers. Just because you have a source of thermal noise (or whatever) doesn't guarantee a secure design. If you search on google groups then you can start to get a feeling for the difficulty of the task. Also see Cryptogram on www.counterpane.com for general cryptography/security issues. Keith
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