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Re: best way to create entropy?
From: Jasper Wallace <jasper () pointless net>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:11:20 +0100 (BST)
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Dan White wrote:
On 10/11/12 17:08 -0700, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us () 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.co.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.+1.
and with ekeyd-egd-linux you can distribute the entropy from an entropykey over the net - great for giving vm some randomness. -- [http://pointless.net/] [0x2ECA0975]
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