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		chinathrow on Feb 19, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to t... Yet they do depend on a good RNG, don't they? Is that a given on common smartphones these days?

pixl97 on Feb 19, 2015 [–]

I'm not sure about hardware RNG, but many if not most phones have sources of 'random' enviornmental data they can use to generate a random number such as cameras and phone movement.

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