[Cryptech Tech] RAM as source of entropy

[Warren Kumari]

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Steven Bellovin <smb at cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
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> On Feb 8, 2014, at 6:28 PM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
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>>> https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec08/tech/full_papers/halderman/halderman_html/
>>> might have some data on that.
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>> seen anything on SRAM?
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> No.
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>> 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
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> Yes, and there can be issues of the operational environment to think of.
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>> do we need an entropometer setup?
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> Sure, if only it were possible..
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http://xkcd.com/221/ ?
W


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