[Cryptography] What's a Plausible Attack On Random Number Generation?

[Richard Outerbridge]

On 2013-11-02 (306), at 02:33:05, Bill Stewart <bill.stewart at pobox.com> wrote:

> At 07:21 AM 11/1/2013, Jerry Leichter wrote:
>> On Nov 1, 2013, at 7:04 AM, Yaron Sheffer <yaronf.ietf at gmail.com> wrote:

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Make it like an electrical fuse?

For heaven’s sake, why not just a sensor next to and in line with the physical on/off switch like a hyper sensitive geiger counter, and widely available sources of benign radioactives, linked to a machine register?

The machine couldn’t even turn itself on until it was random enough.  Would that be an acceptably low-level and early enough blocking State for sufficiently random seeds for all practical purposes?
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