From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-vx0-f171.google.com (mail-vx0-f171.google.com [209.85.220.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority" (verified OK)) by huchra.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ECBD6200C21 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:48:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by vcbfl15 with SMTP id fl15so5246556vcb.16 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:48:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=MJJIbgNxd9Ik5JZRihyFGCaTrl49sIzN1rbF65Hic8Q=; b=FFnLVXx7A0gSZOcGuGZMSj6zEqT7NAjVEzkPEFKL6bZk3hrYIYzbL2h6hDViXaOeAO MmISlIdkMf7dIoEkHwMqVU6RG8f4FUyk5bhgJKt3IURPh2ZM8WmXQ6KQLfpp1xZrEzlQ yOdlnvo8V5Ain2wCow8FN3lz2AFy81JMpkSKTgYnQhXz7Y/pZi1+qaw8yZZoS0nFl3Qp Viyaexj5FkgqHsfQonVIm7jjAN5yEpYvPetfF8Zq3+SQ0SSr0u0J539PXfY0x1rYLSh2 vUgcemSvtFvRXdZ7auTdO3XYeK3RqyhSrvIDwATNeOu40IYIyoQu4S8fsMGFcMbYnbPM NScQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.93.179 with SMTP id cv19mr10967195vdb.103.1331430512594; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:48:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.140.132 with HTTP; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:48:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:48:32 -0600 Message-ID: From: Patrick Maupin To: thumbgps-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [Thumbgps-devel] time and random numbers X-BeenThere: thumbgps-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:48:34 -0000 On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Dave Taht wrote: > One of my other concerns in life is the lack of quality random numbers > for use in cryptography. Worth thinking about. > http://warmcat.com/_wp/whirlygig-rng/ I'm not sure I would trust something like this unless I was sure the author understood a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff, and that lots of experts had then examined it from various aspects. There's a growing body of literature on this. See, e.g.: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijrc/2010/879281/ Having said that, the board I'm envisioning could actually be used for the quantization stage of random number generation from random events in time such as alpha decay.