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On 25/03/10 21:34, Ed W wrote: |
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> On 25/03/2010 20:11, Rob Kendrick wrote: |
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>> ... |
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>> It's a pretty standard trick. What's special is that it uses two, and |
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>> mixes the contents together, and so it can detect when one fails. Oh, |
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>> and its price. (Other, much less sophisticated devices, cost as much |
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>> as ten times more and are toys in terms of their security against |
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>> attack.) |
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> It seems that you get quite a lot of tech here for the price? Seems |
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> pretty decent that you can pickup an ARM processor, temp sensor and all |
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> the other bits for around £30.. I presume they are shifting quite a few |
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> since that seems like quite a mass market price? |
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> I noticed a munin script in the ekeyd download - haven't tried it, but |
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> the quantity of variables you can monitor from the device seemed quite |
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> impressive. Who would have thought you would have wanted to graph the |
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> temperature of your random number generator, but for those who do, you |
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> are in luck... |
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Please stop writing about all these fancy features. I feel an increasing |
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need to take out my credit card, even though I have no direct need for a |
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RNG right now. :) |
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At that price, it even invites for funshopping! |
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Regards, |
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Tom |
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