On 04/13/2013 11:04 AM, Pete Stephenson wrote: <SNIP> > [1] http://www.entropykey.co.uk/ [3] <SNIP>
Are you sure you aren't advertising it? Using the URL you supplied, this one has been written about and the link you are looking for (well, at least one of them) is from its links: http://www.entropykey.co.uk/comments/ http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2009-September/037301.html David Shaw wrote: "The developers of the entropy key were clever and instead of making programs write new code to use the key, they made a program that reads the key and feeds the Linux entropy pool. Thus, anything that uses /dev/random (like gpg) benefits without code changes." Or were you after the argument that despite their best efforts it isn't as random as hoped? David Shaw intimates along those lines with "evil". I would say the self-similarity of Mandelbrot meaning order is coming out of chaos despite our best efforts to prevent it. I don't think the card is some sort of malevolent creature with a mind of its own. You should be able to just plug it in and use it with Debian and Ubuntu after you install the packages for handling it. For other Linux distros they have the source code. So from a mechanical level (meaning no consideration of just how random it is) it works with very little effort. Can somebody point to code that can be used for testing how well it works? I as going to give my code for making alpha-numeric hashes for athletic drug samples but it is totally unsuitable. The labs have been broken into many times so encountering an alpha-numeric hash rather than a name would foil sample tampering for physical break-ins in many cases. I was more concerned with hash collisions and just used srand() / rand(). WADA would probably just store the person <--> hash pairings in a DB on their Windows machines unencrypted anyway. HHH _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
