Re: [liberationtech] USB Block Erupters as RNG sources?

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:43 AM, d.nix <d.nix@comcast.net> wrote:

... Curious; anyone know much about what these inexpensive (comparatively, price seems steadily falling) ASIC Block Erupter USB Bitcoin miners can be adapted to doing? Could they be repurposed as RNG sources?

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.