In message <50776926.1030...@enger.us>, "Robert M. Enger" writes: > On 10/11/2012 5:08 PM, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> in the past, i've done many different things to create entropy - > >> encode videos, watch youtube, tcpdump -vvv > /dev/null, compiled a > >> kernel. but, what is best? just whatever gets your cpu to peak or are > >> some tasks better than others? > > Personally, I've used and recommend this USB stick: http://www.entropykey.c > o.uk/ > > > > Internally, it uses diodes that are reverse-biased just ever so close > > to the breakdown voltage such that they randomly flip state back and > > forth. > > > > Cheers, > > jof > > > Intel claims to include a hardware Digital Random Number Generator (DRNG) in > its later generation chips. Is their offering inadequate/discredited? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RdRand > http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2391367,00.asp > http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/embedded/innovation/security/walker-article-secu > rity > http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-digital-random-number-generato > r-drng-software-implementation-guide/
Which is about time. It's not like this hasn't been needed for 10+ years. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org
