Re: Sources for entropy

2007-06-13 Thread Kenneth Østby
On 6/13/07, Michael Casadevall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm looking at Linux and some of the BSD's implementations of random using kernel data. Linux uses a few complex math equations to make the data even more random and various sources. I'll use the equations from Linux since I'm a total mat

Sources for entropy

2007-06-13 Thread Kenneth Østby
-- Forwarded message -- From: Kenneth Østby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jun 13, 2007 9:40 AM Subject: Re: Sources for entropy To: Michael Casadevall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey, On 6/13/07, Michael Casadevall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was curious on what da

Sources for entropy

2007-06-12 Thread Michael Casadevall
As anyone who's been following the IRC channel, I've been writing an entropy device for the kernel so we can get a good source of random data (which will be used to create a proper random translator). I was curious on what data I should use as entropy; I know to get data from the keyboard a