Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]> wrote: > A lot of my friends have one or more Raspberry Pi machines, and I even > got one myself too. But no-one I know nearby own a Dreamplug. This > tell me that the availability of the Debian based Freedombox reference > platform is low, and I believe this limit the number of people joining > the project. > > A way to tap into the resource of people already owning an Raspberry > Pi and interested in taking back control over their own computer use > and communication needs, would be to announce that Raspberry Pi will > also be a reference platform for the Freedombox project.
Good idea. Also, the Rasberry PI includes a hardware random number generator and, as far as I can tell the Dreamplug does not. High-grade random numbers are essential for most crypto, and therefore for security, and they are quite difficult to do with software, especially on a headless server with solid state storage. For that reason alone, I would say the Rasberry Pi is a /far better/ platform for the Box than Dreamplug. I have written software intended to solve this problem for the Dreamplug and other systems without a hardware RNG ftp://ftp.cs.sjtu.edu.cn:990/sandy/maxwell/ There are also several other ways to solve it; see the paper on that site for discussion. Personally, though, I'd be extremely reluctant to use any system without a hardware RNG for security-critical applications. The only way I know to get a hardware RNG on a Dreamplug would involve getting Turbid into Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591472 That lets you use the sound hardware on the plug as an RNG. This looks problematic since some users would want sound for other applications. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
