[-] chickentendrils@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago

Kops like you... sans-wink

[-] chickentendrils@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The noise coming from an open microphone has enough entropy for what we'd usually assume to be random.

It is possible to hit a bottleneck getting random numbers, but there's /dev/urandom which shouldn't block it'll just keep outputting without enough entropy to guarantee pseudorandomness.

Usually you'll know if you're hitting one of those bottlenecks, probably it'll only come up in production or hopefully in load testing.

[-] chickentendrils@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Yeah as long as the setup for the device symlinked its device path to /dev/random or you did that yourself. Stuff I used had a Java SDK walter-breakdown

[-] chickentendrils@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, not USB but in principle it's the same whether it's PCI or whatever. There's no way to prove an RNG is truly random really just have to rely on validating subsets of its output look random. NIST has published recommendations for sampling RNGs.

Here's the title:

A Statistical Test Suite for Random and Pseudorandom Number Generators for Cryptographic Applications

I don't think there's a real need unless it's regulated to need some dedicated HW RNG.

[-] chickentendrils@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 days ago

Alright just admit to rational fascism

[-] chickentendrils@lemmy.ml 25 points 6 days ago

I posted on here that Zelensky or his likely Azov-aligned successor would get the saddam treatment in the future. It was after that Italian occult neonazi bust with all the redirected arms from Ukraine.

[-] chickentendrils@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

The attacker can just be smarter and use various ASNs + out-proxies for their backend.

My background is small-world network in distributed systems and anti-censorship software like Hyphanet. If the goal is to evict/lessen the purview of the metadata harvesting nodes then some version of web-of-trust + proof of work could be implemented.

[-] chickentendrils@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 week ago

I got the most LIB text ever on E Day

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