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VIA C3 Random Number Generator Reviewed
An anonymous reader writes "VIA has added a hardware
random number generator to its Nehemiah C3 CPU. I found a recent review
of its security. Interesting how it's done at the instruction level as opposed to
the chipset level used by the i810 RNG (also reviewed there)."
Hell, I couldn't even predict what would come next
Oh wait...
In Canada, we don't fancy things like socks
Was just some guy they trained to sit there and yell numbers at them.
Developer: Hey! Gimme a number!!!
Idiot in corner: uh Seven boss!
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ok, i couldnt find the original strip, but here goes from memory:
.. and maybe that holds for your calculator too :-)
accounting troll: this is our random number generator
troll: 9
troll: 9
troll: 9
dilbert: are you sure that's random?
accounting troll: thats the problem with randomness, you really can't be sure.
mats
One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
Man, you know you're hardcore when you get excited about a built in random number generator.
Sample convo after purchase:
[girlfriend] Honey, what is that?
[you] (with great awe) The Vee-Eye-Aye Nehemiah C3 CPU with-
[girlfriend] How much did that cost?
[you] Wait, lemme finish-
[girlfriend] Rent. Where is it.
[you] But it has a-
[girlfriend] You are not going to tell me that you spent our next month's rent on that *censored* piece of plastic.
[you] (correcting happily) Silicone!
You stare off. Slowly, you speak.
[you] But it has a...random..number...generator. For strong...uh...crypto. You know, cryptography? Big numbers? Random?
*the sound of footsteps trail away from you*
[you] Honey?
1. A good hardware built-in RNG introduced ...
2. Everybody starts using it
3. Some guys in a CPU company change it to not so good
hardware RNG (for example f(x)=exp(sin(x)) etc)
4.
5. Profit?!
I've got your random number RIGHT HERE...
5,246,549!
I am a filthy pirate.
Despite my best efforts at randomly naming folders and subfolders, and randomly placing permissions on them, and then randomly naimg the files without any type of extension on them, my girlfriend is able to quickly locate and identify my porn - even though she barely knows how to operate a computer in general, let alone Linux. She is a natural at breaking encryption.
Example - If I ask you to "Pick a number between One and Four" about 90% of people will pick Two or Three.
What, are the other 10% not listening to the question?
392! 3892! 7489!
feel free to use any of those if you're short on cash and cant upgrade just yet.
THEY ARE ALL OPEN SOURCE - FREE AS IN I'LL SUE YOU WHEN YOU GOT MONEY TO PAY!
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
I remember when Cyrix had it's 100MHz CPUs with huge fans and everybody tweaked them to 133MHz, every long-term calculation on that involving FPU would give random numbers as the result... ;-)
So, where is the novelty?
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You know, when you're able to use quote marks (" for example) in a written medium, you really don't need to spell out quote unquote as well. It really just doesn't make any sense - we can see the quote marks you used, spelling that idiom out doesn't add anything. People sometimes say "quote unquote" because you can't see the quote marks in their speech. Even this practice is ill-advised as it makes one sound like a drooling marketdroid (e.g. "At the end of the day, we need to quote unquote actualize profits by exceeding expenses with net income in order to meet quote-unquote business objective. Take an action quote-unquote item").
This is the most bizarre thing I've seen all day. Please don't do it again. Thank you.
XML causes global warming.
Everyone should use the same random number.
I think 23 is a good one, nice an prime, and close to 21 too!
How is it remnants of the Big Bang when each channel is a differnet frequency and that background radiation operates only on 1 frequency?
Are you trying to say the big bang was an exclusive, only available on NBC?
Actually, the random number generator is the math coprocessor. And they are not even the first to think about this: such techniques were pioneered by Intel in the first Pentiums
yes, but isn't hte front end amp of the tv tuner just a remnant of the big bang?
Photos.
In fact, if you ask a human being for 3 random numbers, odds are very good that they will give you at least two sequential ones...such as 7 6 2...or 5 9 8...
I'd expect 1 in 3 odds of that happening anyway.
The Beatle random number generator:
number 9
number 9
number 9
The monty python random number generator:
6, no 8...AAAAaaahhhhhhh
the ask a person to guess a number between 1-10 random number generator
7
3
the Slashdot random number generator
3.14, 1701, 2001, 69, 1337
The Microsoft Random number generator
7,7,7,7 yes its random, says so in the eula
the pepsi random number generator:
1
the buffy random number generator:
"you dare insult buffy? you are stupid AND you suck."wait, that was the "angery buffy fan response to a minor critque of the show generator"... my bad.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
I wrote a program that intelligently replies to Slashdot posts:
10 PRINT "You fucking kharma whore!"
20 PRINT "How the hell is that +5 funny?"
30 PRINT "Quit fucking bitching about Slashdot posters!"
40 GOTO 10
I disagree.
According to my prophesor, XN^v(1/3)/10^7=BAHC+c represents the best entropy. Where;
X is the resonation wavelength of an Xylophone of your choice,
N is the distance of a Nudie Bar from where you are at,
v is the number of vaginas in a meat^H^H^H^Hgirl's P.E. locker
B is the ammount of Bitches in your favorite Shakespear book
A is the length of your girlfriends ass-crack in centimeters,
H is the number of pet hamsters your gay English teacher has in is classroom
C is the duration of your Cock's hard-on after seeing Daphne and Scooby-Doo have gentle dogsex
c is the ammount of crap you see on slashdot, not counting this post.
And there you have it, from the words of my prophesor, Peter Goatse.
Like my dual Athlon system doesn't run hot enough already... now you want me to put a decaying isotope in there as well? :-P
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I guess that's the point of computers though...if we could all calculate as fast as a computer, process data as fast as a computer, and perform other tasks as fast and as well as a computer, we wouldn't need computers, now would we?
We need computers for porn. Nothing could ever possibly substitute computers in that regard.
It would be pretty easy to set up too. All you need is a gas-filled detector in the GM region and some electronics.
:)
You seem to have missed the part about aquiring a lump of Plutonium to put into your generator
MS Word :)
you try to do the same thing
at different times and get a different result each time