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From: Aidan Williams <aidanonym@gmail.com>
To: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, Eric Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>,
	bloat-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: Preliminary results of using GPS to look for clock skew
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:57:44 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E7C6628.8040207@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA93jw7=yeE_WdkF8Gum32D4SX06HSXfB5qiq4_6fBpOxckzNg@mail.gmail.com>

On 23/09/2011 3:34 AM, Dave Taht wrote:
> Secondly, routers at least have multiple interfaces to get randomness from
> which would be hard to spoof all at the same time.
>
> and wireless routers have more noise sources and interfaces...

Wireless devices also have access to random processes unique to the 
wireless medium.  Things like or RSSI, or perhaps some other low level 
radio related parameters related to fading probably generate a fair 
amount of entropy.  Would that be usable?

Use of WPA would go hand in hand with using the wireless interface.. 
thus generating randomness.  ;-)

- aidan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-23 10:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-21 23:02 Eric Raymond
2011-09-22  0:18 ` Dave Taht
2011-09-22  2:11   ` Eric Raymond
2011-09-22  2:24     ` Jonathan Morton
2011-09-22  2:29       ` Eric Raymond
2011-09-23  9:09       ` Jan Ceuleers
2011-09-23  9:38         ` Dave Taht
2011-09-23 12:10           ` Jan Ceuleers
2011-09-23 12:50             ` Rick
2011-09-24 14:50               ` Jan Ceuleers
2011-09-22  9:08     ` Dave Taht
2011-09-22 17:15       ` Rick Jones
2011-09-22 17:34         ` Dave Taht
2011-09-22 17:43           ` Rick Jones
2011-09-22 17:58             ` Dave Taht
2011-09-23 10:57           ` Aidan Williams [this message]
2011-09-23 10:10     ` Dave Taht
2011-09-23  9:09   ` Jan Ceuleers
2011-09-23  9:24 ` Jan Ceuleers

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