Hi, When you get the card, please collect some randomness and upload it to my test-service: http://www.cacert.at/random/
Best regards, Philipp -----Original Message----- From: Ralph Bonnell <[email protected]> To: coderman <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 11:25:16 -0700 Subject: Re: [RNG] more quintessence RNG stuff > 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 > _______________________________________________ > RNG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.bitrot.info/mailman/listinfo/rng _______________________________________________ RNG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.bitrot.info/mailman/listinfo/rng
