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

[James A. Donald]

On 2013-12-14 04:59, Steve Weis wrote:
> 3. I think an accelerometer measuring vibrations could be influenced
> by the CPU fans, which can be influenced by attackers running userland
> processes.

"Influencing" random number generation is unimportant, since all it does 
is result in different random numbers that are equally unpredictable.