WaywardGeek

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OpenADP, needs volunteers to help prevent mass secret surveillance(openadp.org)
17 points by WaywardGeek 1y ago|4 comments
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by WaywardGeek 1y ago
As you all know, the UK tried to force Apple to give them a secret mass surveillance capability, not just for UK citizens, but Apple users globally. As a result, Apple disabled "Advanced Data Protection" in the UK. OpenADP is Ope
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by WaywardGeek 2y ago
Another sealed computing use case that is public: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/pie/security/ck... And this one: https://security.googleblog.com/2022/10/Securityo
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by WaywardGeek 12y ago
Just throwing it out there... if the radio is a problem, I'd love for Paul and friends to replace both the radio and avalanche source with an "infinite noise multiplier", which I feel is more secure than either alone, but pro
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by WaywardGeek 12y ago
Still, a USB phy is required. How would you solve this problem? Would a FTDI USB chip be more palatable?
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by WaywardGeek 12y ago
The channel hoping is just a bit of software. It costs $0.00 in additional hardware. Software complexity is a big deal in a TRNG. The KISS rule applies big-time here. The more complex the software, the more likely it is a significant fl
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by WaywardGeek 12y ago
There are plenty of decent sources of entropy, like webcams and sound cards. However, they all add parts we don't need, and they don't take any care to design with security in mind. Eventually, a good open hardware TRNG should b
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by WaywardGeek 12y ago
Every TRNG I've seen so far that uses "zener noise" is actually using the reverse breakdown voltage across the emitter-base junction of a cheap NPN transistor. This is a zener diode! The reason this form of zener is used
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by WaywardGeek 12y ago
Is it possible for this device to transmit over radio, or only receive? I certainly prefer only being able to receive, as transmitting seems like an attack vector. With the assumption that it only receives, I would strongly prefer that it
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by WaywardGeek 12y ago
Note: I've only glanced at NeuG, so this is an over-simplified repy. Neug relies on a few different A/D inputs as a noise source. The resolution of the A/Ds is only 12 bits, meaning it is not capable of reliably measuring t