[liberationtech] USB Block Erupters as RNG sources?

[coderman]

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:43 AM, d.nix <d.nix at 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.