d.nix <d....@comcast.net> writes: >Curious; anyone know much about what these inexpensive (comparatively, price >seems steadily falling) ASIC Block Erupter USB Bitcoin miners can be adapted >to doing? Could they be repurposed as RNG sources?
"Very little", and "no". They're basically custom Bitcoin-mining ASICs, I looked at one a while back for use in password-cracking and they're really not suited for it at all, you load a vector in and say "go" but since they're quite I/O-limited you can't easily adapt them for hash-breaking. As for RNG use, they're entirely deterministic, how would you use them as an RNG source? Peter. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
