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HAVEGEHAVEGEPosted Nov 20, 2012 21:41 UTC (Tue) by ajb (subscriber, #9694)Parent article: LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers
HAVEGE might conceivably produce genuine randomness if it could run on an asychronous cpu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_circuit#Asynchr...). Otherwise, no. It's just a baroque way to collect randomness from elsewhere - if that.
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HAVEGE Posted Nov 20, 2012 22:24 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Well, thank you Captain Obvious. The question is not about source of randomness (contemporary CPUs are not asyncronous, but contemporary PCs as whole most certainly are asyncronous: memory access is just an obvious example), the question is how much if it is actually retained in the output, if any.
HAVEGE Posted Nov 20, 2012 22:43 UTC (Tue) by ajb (subscriber, #9694) [Link]
You've managed to be both rude and incorrect. Next time think before commenting.
HAVEGE Posted Nov 28, 2012 16:53 UTC (Wed) by akeane (subscriber, #85436) [Link]
>You've managed to be both rude and incorrect. Next time think before commenting.
"Captain Obvious" is really funny though, I shall endeavor to use it more whilst conversing with minions!
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