2013/10/18 James A. Donald <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>You can, however, be sure a microphone input is a reliable source of entropy, since fake entropy would interfere with its microphone function.
On 2013-10-22 08:43, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote:
This is a syntatic non sequitur. Why would fake entropy interfere with a microphone's function?
If your device can hear sound, it will hear thermal noise. You cannot build a device that can hear sound, and not hear thermal noise.
In either case it's also a semantic non sequitor. If someone plays a darn loud sine wave in the serverroom you can be sure the microphone will replicate it.
Will replicate it imperfectly. Some of the imperfections being thermal noise.
