[liberationtech] Winners of Wall Street Journal's Data Transparency Weekend

[Nathan of Guardian]

On 04/17/2012 10:28 AM, Yosem Companys wrote:
> http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/04/16/the-winners-of-wsjs-data-transparency-weekend/
>
" Extra bonus: the program lets people generate random numbers (which
are needed for encryption) by shaking their phone -- allowing the
creators to say that their program is powered by dance moves."

^^ That's my handy work right there. It was a whole lot of fun to
implement, and it turns out there is some good research out there
showing just how good a mobile phone's accelerometer can be for
generating random data to seed encryption. You really don't have to move
around that much, but adding dance moves to serious security added some
much needed levity to it all.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:TDrilR4hnbUJ:www.cis.uab.edu/saxena/docs/vsh-wisec11.pdf+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESicAf94WZSROYF0WU9Hjv8_PDhgVe-6_9hXfxtp71fUDkv5Mnj9-pUgYEFxTPdXU6Rz_PekLfz_-pxPp2OC65T9wU8OYOesinxao5WQ-6_cRSYCXkbXlUT45pvVuz-TvOZXZJ6x&sig=AHIEtbQiYDMesy3UREqvsA9K5nSLBY2zzA
<https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:TDrilR4hnbUJ:www.cis.uab.edu/saxena/docs/vsh-wisec11.pdf+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESicAf94WZSROYF0WU9Hjv8_PDhgVe-6_9hXfxtp71fUDkv5Mnj9-pUgYEFxTPdXU6Rz_PekLfz_-pxPp2OC65T9wU8OYOesinxao5WQ-6_cRSYCXkbXlUT45pvVuz-TvOZXZJ6x&sig=AHIEtbQiYDMesy3UREqvsA9K5nSLBY2zzA>

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