Curious RNG stalemate [was: use of cpunks]
James A. Donald
jamesd at echeque.com
Mon Oct 21 19:53:27 PDT 2013
> 2013/10/18 James A. Donald <jamesd at echeque.com <mailto:jamesd at echeque.com>>
>
> You can, however, be sure a microphone input is a reliable source of
> entropy, since fake entropy would interfere with its microphone
> function.
On 2013-10-22 08:43, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote:
> This is a syntatic non sequitur. Why would fake entropy interfere with a
> microphone's function?
If your device can hear sound, it will hear thermal noise.
You cannot build a device that can hear sound, and not hear thermal noise.
> In either case it's also a semantic non sequitor. If someone plays a
> darn loud sine wave in the serverroom you can be sure the microphone
> will replicate it.
Will replicate it imperfectly. Some of the imperfections being thermal
noise.
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