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Re: What if you had a very good entropy source, but only practical at crypto engine installation time?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Thu Oct 7 09:45:59 2010

From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, thierry.moreau@connotech.com
In-Reply-To: <4CACA859.2070504@connotech.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:58:50 +1300

Thierry Moreau <thierry.moreau@connotech.com> writes:

>The PUDEC (Practical Use of Dice for Entropy Collection) scheme has been 
>advanced. The new web page is at http://pudec.connotech.com
>
>Plus the PUDEC dice sets are now offered for sale.

Hmm, they're somewhat expensive... a cheaper alternative, even if they require 
a bit more manual effort, are these:

  http://www.amazon.com/Gamestation-d16-Hexidice/dp/B0012YVYXU

(16-sided dice numbered 0...F, $1 each, although shipment outside the US is 
damn expensive).

Peter.

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