24 Mar
2010
24 Mar
'10
11:44 a.m.
While avalanche noise (hoping it doesn't start to tunnel - that current must be actively controlled as each junction is different) is a good source of randomness (up to megabits / sec / junction), "encrypting" it just means masking possible low entropy. I'd prefer to see raw conditoned stream than "encrypted" one (even web content looks high-entropy to Diehard when encrypted).
Now, at #30 it seems like a bargain for a fancy random number generator,