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
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