d.nix <[email protected]> writes: >Curious; anyone know much about what these inexpensive (comparatively, price >seems steadily falling) ASIC Block Erupter USB Bitcoin miners can be adapted >to doing? Could they be repurposed as RNG sources?
"Very little", and "no". They're basically custom Bitcoin-mining ASICs, I looked at one a while back for use in password-cracking and they're really not suited for it at all, you load a vector in and say "go" but since they're quite I/O-limited you can't easily adapt them for hash-breaking. As for RNG use, they're entirely deterministic, how would you use them as an RNG source? Peter.
