[Tinyos-help] Random Number

Michael Schippling schip at santafe.edu
Sat May 3 17:38:47 PDT 2008


very cool, nice paper.
But did you really run the data collector for a month?
And nothing crashed?
heh

MS


Aurélien Francillon wrote:
> Michael Schippling a écrit :
> 
> ...
> 
>> To get a more "random" sequence you need to use some kind
>> of natural input, like an open ADC or maybe the RSSI with no
>> active transmission. Even then one can make an argument that
>> the data is not Truly Random since everything carries some
>> notion of state...
>>   
> you  may be interested in TinyRNG which is doing similar stuff than 
> above + is designed for security (key generation etc.... ) :
> 
> http://planete.inrialpes.fr/~francill/Papers/TinyRNG.pdf
> 
> http://planete.inrialpes.fr/~francill/stuff/TinyRNG-0.1.tar.gz
> 
> 
> cheers
> Aurélien


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