-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 19/07/13 13:03, KheOps wrote: > Just came accross this article, apparently showing the bad quality > of the hardware RNG in Raspberri Pi devices. > > http://scruss.com/blog/2013/06/07/well-that-was-unexpected-the-raspberry-pis-hardware-random-number-generator/ > > Quite interesting since (pseudo-) random numbers are heavily used > in crypto. Interesting also to see another post on this topic, > after the study of a random number generation procedure formerly > used in Cryptocat and that was also problematic.
Is that what the article shows? Looks to me like the Raspberry Pi's hardware RNG (/dev/hwrng) is being held up as an example of 'good randomness' in contrast to the RANDU algorithm's 'bad randomness'. Cheers, Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJR6S5uAAoJEBEET9GfxSfMKS8H/2DHdwnwgiYjoXtrJuxF5iPQ jao6vb0GJP423lLyLsc9smcm/XAYhtCC4uVObw5SeKKZ0sBIvpwotmjooY0mM9I/ wbgwzdJIIFr4y4QpLhZvc2gpbHyl9Ri1feQkRIKS+YTvEe6gIZPcEkkL0xUaqPfD QXrL0HPom9T9Rv0Y7F5hmU1DoP1r+rTlFpcCvMlWdr6VT+9J9bftUg0P9bIs1g22 J1Kos3BBbHl5+xFcOauD2AcSMBPNs9VaaIvTXdBF34Zod/ehLYXBEAfKPsan1hN1 nJTB3lEPrH8HGnokSYO4xibLsYpxf1QTqu3OxdY9iq/B7oyug7HTOW+YZGA53X4= =88Cb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
