From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Interesting research possibility?
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:59:58 +0100
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> Also, it looks like T23's have a reasonable thermal noise
> hardware random number generator that I'll try to use.  I
> haven't run it against any of the RNG tests yet.

that doesn't include T22's too, by any chance?

i think random number generation should be built in
to more hardware; generating random numbers for
crypto keys seems slow in software... and is it really dependable?

has anyone run a reasonable set of tests on plan 9's /dev/random
under different run-time conditions?

  rog.