[Cryptography] An alternative electro-mechanical entropy source (was 'We cannot trust' Intel and Via's chip-based crypto...)

Phillip Hallam-Baker hallam at gmail.com
Fri Dec 13 12:18:27 EST 2013


These schemes are starting to create hardware devices that remind me of
this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/adinazed/7486563708/


I have half a mind to build a full scale model and use it as an RNG.

http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2003/09/orac3_part1/opi1.jpg


Of course the original was supposed to have the ability to hack into any
computer with a Tariel cell in it. So it is actually quite close in
function.
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