[liberationtech] Random number generation being influenced - rumors

[Sandy Harris]

Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:

> So, I put a lot of credence in distrusting HWRNG black box
> implementations.  But unfortunately we need a lot more reliable entropy.
> A fully open source, nothing up my sleeve hardware entropy source would
> be a huge improvement.

At least one has been available for a decade or more:
http://www.av8n.com/turbid/paper/turbid.htm

The paper here discusses several that at least get close:
ftp://ftp.cs.sjtu.edu.cn:990/sandy/maxwell/