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Date:      Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:47:14 -0400
From:      "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To:        yarrow@zeroknowledge.com
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>, current@FreeBSD.org, jeroen@vangelderen.org, yarrow@zeroknowledge.com
Subject:   Re: [YARROW] Re: yarrow & /dev/random
Message-ID:  <200009011447.KAA02657@tsx-prime.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Kris Kennaway's message of Fri, 1 Sep 2000 03:06:28 -0700 (PDT), <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009010251290.27842-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>

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   Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 03:06:28 -0700 (PDT)
   From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>

   I claim this to be untrue: my tests show an ordinary sound card (with no
   recording source, at maximum input gain) will provide far more
   (high-quality) entropy than Yarrow can make use of under even the most
   punishing loads.

What kind of tests have you done?  Did they include spectral analysis?
If so, what kind of frequence biases did you find?  I assume there was a
huge peak around 60 Hz.  :-)

							- Ted


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