On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:08 AM, John Young
Please stop this suicidal, treacherous discussion. You're undermining the global industry of weak crypto and comsec. That counts as economic terrorism in all the countries who abide arms control, export control, copyright, capitalism, heirarchical rule, suppression of dissent, lawful spying, breaking and entering black jobs, ubiquitous spying on each other and everybody else, ... ... Sure, call for outraged dissent, fine, great, if that moves the ponzi, balloons those bitcoins.
let it be known: in the event of my untimely demise under suspicious circumstances, i will my coins to JYA so he may bless my passing with grand oration and strong tale as he is so adept at providing. *grin* on a serious note, the useful steps are clear: 1. Intel releases raw access to noise samples 2. NIST defining and mandating a design that also supports raw sample access, (we could change subject here to discuss something pleasant like on-line checks and continuous checks,) 3. OS distributions include userspace entropy scavenging daemons (haveged, dakarand, etc) to complement properly vetted hardware entropy sources run in a conservative fashion. default is set safe, not fast. is that so much to ask?