1995-10-31 - Re: /dev/random for FreeBSD [was: Re: /dev/random for Linux]

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From: Scott Brickner <sjb@universe.digex.net>
To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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Message ID: <199510312247.RAA19315@universe.digex.net>
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UTC Datetime: 1995-10-31 23:37:18 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 07:37:18 +0800

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From: Scott Brickner <sjb@universe.digex.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 07:37:18 +0800
To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Subject: Re: /dev/random for FreeBSD [was: Re: /dev/random for Linux]
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Mark Murray writes:
>Can they predict thermal noise in a cheap transistor? ]:->

As Perry pointed out in the last round on hardware noise generators, they
may not be able to predict it, but they *may* be able to generate a field
which will *influence* it.

It's difficult to know for sure if your noise source is really random,
and to what degree.

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