Hi! On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 06:07:03AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: >[...]
> Uh...hmmm...on what basis does Sun claim generation of "true" random >numbers? Unless it includes a sample of some radioisotope and a timestamping >particle detector, why would hardware/firmware RNG output be any less >pseudo-random than software RNG output would? IIRC another possible source is the random noise on a resistor or something like that. That might not be uniform first, but with appropriate transformations applied afterwards... Kind regards, Hannah(s). *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/