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

[Jeff Simmons]

On Friday, December 13, 2013 11:14:33 am you wrote:
> I think we should go quantum.
> 
> Take a really low intensity light source, stop it down to a single photon
> and put it through a mirror with 50% transmission with detectors for both
> transmission and reflection.
> 
> To remove bias from the mirror, read pairs of bits and reject them if they
> are the same and take the first bit as the output bit otherwise.
> 
> There is a literature on this stuff.

Radioactive decay. Just check on the cat.

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