full-disclosure - Re: how i stopped worrying and loved the backdoor

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Message-ID: <AANLkTikWYzPcO54ytzmstXo86V2TFr1ZDvvir9OH4daE@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 14:38:35 -0800
From: BMF <badmotherfsckr@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: how i stopped worrying and loved the backdoor

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 2:12 PM,  <cpolish@...ewest.net> wrote:
> Check out Markus Jacobsson et al, "A Practical Secure Physical Random
> Bit Generator", 1998, using the turbulence of airflow inside the drive
> as the source of randomness. Can't do much better than that.

I read that when it came out. I am quite familiar with turbulent
boundary layers. Nobody sells hardware (hard drives, in this case)
which actually implements the technique. All of my original queries
still stand.

BMF

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