1.7 GBit/s RNG by laser feedback

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Mon Nov 24 09:36:30 PST 2008


On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 09:26:57AM -0800, Sarad AV wrote:
> Is that a better way to generate pseudo random numbers?

No, it's a RNG, not PRNG. 1.7 GBit/s is not a huge improvement
over RNGs in VIA C7, IIRC.
 
> Sarad.
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 11/24/08, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> 
> > From: Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org>
> > Subject: 1.7 GBit/s RNG by laser feedback
> > To: info at postbiota.org, cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net
> > Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 6:47 PM
> > http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16109-laser-trick-churns-out-secure-random-numbers.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=physics-math
> > 
> > Laser trick churns out secure random numbers
> > 
> > * 18:00 23 November 2008 by Colin Barras
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