[Cryptography] Radioactive random numbers

[Tony Arcieri]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Perry E. Metzger <perry at piermont.com>wrote:

> The attraction of methods that use nothing but a handful of
>  transistors is that they can be fabricated on chip and thus have
> nearly zero marginal cost. The huge disadvantage is that if your
> opponent can convince chip manufacturers to introduce small changes
> into their design, you're in trouble.


It seems like Intel's approach of using thermal noise is fairly sound. Is
there any reason why it isn't more widely adopted? Patents?

http://electronicdesign.com/learning-resources/understanding-intels-ivy-bridge-random-number-generator


-- 
Tony Arcieri
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