From: gnu (John Gilmore)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 93 02:00:04 PDT
To: Douglas Sinclair <dsinclai@acs.ucalgary.ca>
Subject: Re: hardware RNG
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> persuade a single diode to be noisy yet.  Anyhow, I turned to the simplest
> white noise source that I have, which happens to be a radio tuned to a dead
> channel. . .
> What other method could be used to attack this except for the
> obvious tempest attack on the host computer?

Well, the most obvious is for the attacker to TRANSMIT on that
frequency.  Then they control the 'random' data you are getting.

	John