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Re: About that simple hardware RNG

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Subject: Re: About that simple hardware RNG
From: SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 07:30:23 -0400
Cc: [email protected]
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Roy M. Silvernail" at Oct 3, 95 07:30:54 pm
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> The idea:  noise from an avalanching diode is applied to the input of an
> 8 bit shift register.  The SR is clocked at some fairly high sampling
> rate.  The 8 bits are made available on the printer port.
The shift register and timer probably involves 2 microchips.  Why not just
use 8 avalanching diodes, one for each bit.  Infact, you can use 13 if you
use the other printer-port input lines.

References:
- About that simple hardware RNG
  - From: [email protected] (Roy M. Silvernail)

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