SSD drives

SSD drives

E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il
Thu Jan 3 17:34:26 IST 2013


I don't know if Intel uses this but as I recall it VIA claims to use
certain quantum effects as sources of entropy:
http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/padlock/hardware.jsp

2013/1/3 Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Michael Shiloh wrote about "Re: SSD drives":
>> perhaps they use radioactive decay? Scroll down to "Geiger Counter" at:
>
> There's an inherent conflict between the number of bits of randomness you
> can get out of this process, and the safety of the operator ;-)
>
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