[Cryptography] The best TRNG architecture, comming soon?

[james hughes]

> On Aug 25, 2019, at 6:14 AM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ring oscillator based TRNGs suck, hugely.  They are the reason we have so many RSA keys out there with one common factor.  

Ah, no… 

The keys we found came from devices that did not have TRNGs in them. They assumed that the normal Linux entropy collection worked when 100s of machines were built exactly the same and had exactly the same initialization.
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