[Cryptech Tech] RAM as source of entropy

[Steven Bellovin]

On Feb 8, 2014, at 6:28 PM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:

>> https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec08/tech/full_papers/halderman/halderman_html/
>> might have some data on that.
> 
> seen anything on SRAM?

No.
> 
> i suspect part of what may be going on here is some of us are nervous
> using memory as an entropy source because of that and other DRAM papers
> and because it's MEMORY damn it

Yes, and there can be issues of the operational environment to think of.
> 
> do we need an entropometer setup?
> 
Sure, if only it were possible..


		--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb