OneRNG – Open Hardware Random Number Generator

Re:OneRNG – Open Hardware Random Number Generator by toong on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @08:17AM (#8520528)

I think the parents point is that you generated the random-bitstream somehow, starting from a specific seed. If you know the seed, you could regenerates the random bitstream with a lot less bytes (=secretly compressible).

So now you have some extra room left on the ROM to embed your malicious firmware and still be able to dump the original full 256k.

If you start with a known image/photo (not yours, some public domain), that after encryption/compression is exactly the amount of padding you need (or cut-off), you have your padding-bitstream that is a lot harder to regenerate from a seed.

Edit: clarification

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Re:OneRNG – Open Hardware Random Number Generator by danbruc on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @09:28AM (#8520805)

Glad you asked - we have a book [1][2] for this, at least up to 405.5 KiB.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Million_Random_Digits_with_10...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Million-Random-Digits-Normal-Deviates/...

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Re:OneRNG – Open Hardware Random Number Generator by Taniwha on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @05:41PM (#8523775)

or we could use a hardware RNG ..... and run it through a whitener just to make it more interesting ....

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