On 2/24/2010 13:55, Gilles Kirouac wrote: > From: Jose Mario Quintana<[email protected]> > >> The authors of the Mersenne Twister algorithm (which has a larger >> period than GB_FLIP by many orders of magnitud) have warned for >> a long time about using directly these kind of "random" >> number generators for encrypting purposes (see >> http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/efaq.html). > > For more than a decade, your desktop has had an electronic > RNG based on thermal noise. Here is an intro (not very useful): > > http://www.intel.com/assets/pdf/manual/298029.pdf > > Your OS will let you use it. > > Linux reference: > http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/hw_random.txt > > Note that I never used it. > > ~ Gilles
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