Re: how i stopped worrying and loved the backdoor

[BMF <badmotherfsckr () gmail com>]

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 2:12 PM,  <cpolish () surewest 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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