Anyone can buy a card, at the moment.  (who knows what the future
holds).  It is a PCIe card - we are waiting for one to ship here from
their office in Australia.  Once it is here, I can snap a photo of it
if you all are curious.  I plan on collecting a few gig of random data
for OTP fun :D

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 6:14 PM, coderman <[email protected]> wrote:
> thank you for the prompt replies Ralph!
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Ralph Bonnell <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> One card can produce around 4gbit of true random, which the card takes and 
>> outputs 1gbit of sustained random.  The API allows for any commercial 
>> product to use the feed to replace the prng.
>
> awesome!  much better than other recent industry attempts. ;)
>
>
>
>
>> A lot of your questions are related to implementation - the card is a PCI 
>> card with a nice API.  How long is not relavant - you turn it on and it's 
>> instantly available!
>
> agreed; at 1Gbps you storage volume likely not the bottleneck.  when
> you say PCI do you mean PCIe at some lanes? or truly old skewl PCI
> bus?
>
>
>
>>  ... Retail is like $50k - kinda specialized card, but nothing else like it 
>> currently exists.
>
> is it possible to purchase a card as a private citizen or are
> re-sellers steering clear of any BIS control complications and dealing
> with business entities only?
>
>
> thanks again and best regards,



-- 
-Ralph Bonnell
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