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On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 22:51, <ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'll be interested to hear on this one... I don't know any specifics on
your question, but my reading has always led me to believe that it's very
difficult to have a program that gives truly random results...
In fact, it's pretty much impossible because computers are designed to
be as deterministic as possible.
That's why they're called PRNGs - pseudo-random number generators -
the results they can give are good enough for cryptographic
applications, so they should also be good enough for most
applications.
There are also HWRNGs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generator
IBM once sold (or maybe is still selling) a crypto acceleration card
for the i - besides being similar in function to a TPM, it also
contained a HWRNG. Some CPU manufacturers, especially for embedded
devices add HWRNGs to their CPU dies.
Here's the interesting stuff about the crypto card:
http://www-03.ibm.com/security/cryptocards/pdfs/4764api.pdf
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