Radiation Detectors from Aware Electronics

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Fri Nov 3 07:32:32 PST 1995



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






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