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From: david@iwu1a.UUCP (scheibelhut)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: Why no hardware random numbers?
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Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 11:12:44 EST
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In the past hardware random number generators were hard to implement and
unreliable because they were based on measuring noise.  However, in this
era of VLSI chips a hardware random number generator should be easy to
build: one could just send the set of integers into an encryption chip
and return the result.  No one will be able to find any regularity (except
perhaps the NSA).

		David Scheibelhut