-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/25/2016 02:05 AM, jim bell wrote:
Seems somewhat over-hyped, and not especially new either. Jim Bell
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3607142/Cybersecurity-b reakthrough-masterpiece-technique-create-truly-random-numbers-revealed.h tml
"It could mean completely secure encryption of data, be it emails or voting - and even help beat climate change. Researchers have revealed a groundbreaking new technique to create truly random numbers for the first time. The new method creates truly random numbers with less computational effort than other methods, which could facilitate significantly higher levels of security for everything from consumer credit card transactions to military communications.
The new method takes two weakly random sequences of numbers, such as air temperatures and stock market prices sampled over time, and turns them into one sequence of truly random numbers.
Wow! Canonical entropy from nowhere, just like magic! Until or unless your adversary observes you collecting samples from publicly available sources and starts working backward from there. Gimme the XOR of a few spark gaps or back-biased tunnel diodes any day. Laws of physics vs. clever arguments... :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXSOOWAAoJEECU6c5XzmuqOqgH/j3ONdkUl97fTMcvkonqN9c7 XcvTVSmoyPqFateVu5Ll4HC4nph+qCyA7xgO7j8Pe7zsXAQCqKuoIn+UIjeZ48/+ a29xb2pgRbL9/hiYckxUY2hdcgEcG12ZoHlwIIoBJYcHa7DpyoJJzTllibHXkQX/ gcDZQI4t/QE3cL7WbD9Ma23yMZtM4Yp4Qoq6gSJukAgxl4MxdRn+ZLfd9zBs6n6s xNDn9CtcOf0A8ioWLOxCz86Ggw85PgIB6/LN5G9SsCHCx8gF4bSjAf8W1PUnrDbw F8yb1a3SNl3/J+KN9W9sx3YOBJIYO2MMASkAJfi+YuLdJEuezfuRdinbUWdPIA0= =Yemk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----