Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:39:26 -0500 | From | "Stephen D. Williams" <> | Subject | High Quality Random sources, was: Re: SecuriKey |
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Impossible? I think not. Some "mechanical" devices do exhibit true random capability, especially when enhanced by algorithmic means. To wit: http://www.lavarand.org/
Let me know if you can prove their methods don't provide a true "high quality" random source.
I'd like to see their code as a module with an automatic test to make sure that the random source is high quality. In this case, that would mean making sure that the cap was not off the camera.
sdw
tabris wrote:
>... > I should also mention that the problem with 'generating' an OTP via any >mechanical or algorithmic means is impossible as at best an OTP will only >be pseudo-random, and therefore with identical inputs (assuming it is >possible, which we can assume here for the sake of theory and security), >the same OTP can be generated, thus breaking our assumption/necessity of >non-deterministic output. > > I'd say more but I'm on my way to work. >- -- >tabris >- - >I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or >whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. > -- Chuang-tzu >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQFAAagR1U5ZaPMbKQcRAmo2AJ0Wc6xTLCd/swZYlEO6emktLhOtRgCfUUP5 >OB4YFi6bh1yrVMzGIoN6XNs= >=O/uT >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >
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