[Cryptech Tech] RAM as source of entropy

[Василий Долматов]

06 февр. 2014 г., в 17:50, Leif Johansson <leifj at sunet.se> написал(а):

> On 2014-02-06 14:43, Василий Долматов wrote:
>> 06 февр. 2014 г., в 16:47, Joachim Strömbergson <joachim at secworks.se> написал(а):
>> 
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>>> Aloha!
>>> 
>>> I just had a (not very unique) idea of using RAM memories as source of
>>> entropy. The idea is to power cycle an external memory and read the
>>> contents. Due to how memories work the contents will be in more or less
>>> random state.
>> «Less» than «more». Unusable as a source.
> 
> can you elaborate? 
No. 


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