From: Mutant Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 16:04:15 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Truelly Random Numbers
Message-ID: <199603060212.VAA09237@bb.hks.net>
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Tim Fulbright wrote:
> 
> Now I, a lurker for two months, am truelly confused!  L. Deitweiler must be
> right.   Surely one of you cyperpunk fellows could hack together a dongle with
> some kind of AD converter and buffer ram to gather a Truelly Random Bitstream
> off the environment every couple of milliseconds easier than this raindrop
> scheme or recording the fan, you're haviung me on!.  Let's go back [..]

The raindrop scheme was (politely) laughed off.  As for the fan recording
scheme, it's a good make-do-with-what-you-already-have method, as opposed
to buying and/or building a card.

A 'simple AD converter' isn't so simple.  Especially if you want to be
sure you really have random noise and not something else that just looks
random.
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