17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Futplex writes:
Perry recently recommended the use of background-radiation detectors as good cheap true RNGs. Properly deployed cryptography generally depends upon excellent PRNGs, or preferably hardware RNGs.
Just one comment -- I think one is better off with a tiny cheap radiation source when using such a system than in depending on background, but the point is the same... Perry