| ??? 12/06/10 10:41 Read: times |
#179907 - FAQ Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Per Westermark said:
But the random data is transmitted in the clear, so it can be dangerous to load a crypto engine with data from that site, since a listener may pick up all random data. Yes - see the FAQ: RANDOM.ORG FAQ said:
Q2.4: Are the numbers available in a secure fashion?
Yes, since April 2007 you can access the server via https://www.random.org/ I should probably note that while fetching the numbers via secure HTTP would protect them from being observed while in transit, anyone genuinely concerned with security should not trust anyone else (including RANDOM.ORG) to generate their cryptographic keys. http://www.random.org/faq/#Q2.4 A number of motherboards have hardware random number generators making use of oscillators affected by thermal noise. Some of ST's latest STM32s have an on-chip hardware RNG - I'm sure they're not alone in that... |
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| For Info: Online Random Numbers | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Clear text transfers | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| FAQ | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| True randomness | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
Testing | 01/01/70 00:00 |