On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:10:00AM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yedidyah Bar-David) writes: > > >> How about placing a cheap microphone (with very bad shielding) inside > >> the case (preferably, right next to the CPU's fan) and sample it, taking > >> the LSB from each sample? > > > > Sounds pretty good to me, but I am not a physicist, nor a statistician. > > I would say a rather safe bet will be taking the LSb (bit). > > I would not be so sure that it will be random at all. Especiallyclose > to fan.
Not the entire sample, of course, but its LSb? How accurate and deterministic do you consider the noise inside a computer, even next to a (normal) fan? -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
