Curious RNG stalemate [was: use of cpunks]

[James A. Donald]

> 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.