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Until it turns out that the NSA was involved writing said RNG and explicitly weekend it with a backdoor...
by xLaszlo 3y ago
Until it turns out that the NSA was involved writing said RNG and explicitly weekend it with a backdoor...
- rcxdude 3y agoThese circuits are really simple. Unless the NSA has backdoored solid-state physics it's no greater a risk than this approach. (The NSA very well could backdoor the camera you point at these pendulums).
- xLaszlo 3y agoHmm, I had to check this and came across this thread on Reddit. NIST has a standard for it, but the exact point is that _that_ can be influenced by them. Also, somewhere in the thread, they mention that it is probably too hard to verify how it is actually implemented in the hardware. https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/klcx4p/is_true_random_number_generation_in_modern/ https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/klcx4p/is_true_rand... I guess in security only the paranoid prevails... Or it is indeed just a cool gimmick...
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