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"Very little", and "no". They're basically custom Bitcoin-mining ASICs, I looked at one a while back for use in password-cracking and they're really not suited for it at all, you load a vector in and say "go" but since they're quite I/O-limited you can't easily adapt them for hash-breaking. As for RNG use, they're entirely deterministic, how would you use them as an RNG source?
at best you *might* be able twist it into a DRBG that would still need to be seeded (and regularly reseeded) with robust entropy.
these ASICs really are single purpose; they're useless for anything else.
Thanks Peter, Coderman- Kinda what I suspected seeing as they are *Application Specific* IC's after all... Wishful thinking more than anything knowing that they are now saturating their market and loosing value rapidly. Cheers! DN - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSTZc/AAoJEDMbeBxcUNAen9AH/3e6uZXS0ot0k8OgSfhVnPQ/ kNhhkgS+xZEx3w7k5pBnw5SXxz4wnZ4pWi9+/16FLoryy5Jtped9GA8J/5iyU/84 RU8m1Uskb0fwqMX1U67EiV7jOhJnzCRpCc/0Vy7JwF1q06VRRgFHLOLVq9MEJuqc k7XyeCZRlvXflMjN9tB40xwq7hntBt+CqSdja9wAdzEIfRffiqkuNO02nSYVrtkC BV/UomkBtBed4lxXp/EmEA1WPt7hmsX6o+dJYDgvRi61RslADdy0Ye++A4iJRbYM qo2MS0PhvnZb7Tu59GjwlGT2GxFEXOADaK6Atq6zI6S33pb1OwuuFlxdhmjPEFU= =WXON -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----