A proper law

[Brian Morrison]

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On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 21:16:37 -0000 in 3E666935.1048.B050DC@localhost
"David Hansen" <davidh@spidacom.co.uk> wrote:

> On 5 Mar 2003 at 19:23, Brian Morrison wrote:
> 
> > Current methods involve using white noise generated by a
> > semiconductor device such as a noise diode being turned back into
> > bits and then processed to ensure randomness
> 
> One is relyng on the latter process being able to spot non-
> randomness.
> 
> I wouldn't trust too much to such a process.

There are special device drivers for just this process, I think they can
be made provably random, or at least demonstrably so.

Perhaps someone with some real knowledge of this area could comment? As
usual preventing physical access to the hardware is the critical step
and not many of us can achieve that.

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Brian Morrison

bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk
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