Ultra-low-cost True Randomness

Cryptocrat writes "Today I blogged about a new method for secure random sequence generation that is based on physical properties of hardware, but requires only hardware found on most computer systems: from standard PCs to RFID tags." Basically he's powercycling memory and looking at the default state of the bits, which surprisingly (to me anyway) is able to both to fingerprint systems, as well as generate a true random number. There also is a PDF Paper on the subject if you're interested in the concept.

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Re:A Slightly More Expensive Method

[snowraver1]

Why people are arguing over an article that is written by someone that doesn't know how to capitalize letters and confuses "lose" and "loose" is boyond me.