[8061] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Lots of random numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Thu Nov 16 17:23:12 2000
From: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 22:34:21 +0100 (CET)
To: Rich Salz <rsalz@caveosystems.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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Rich Salz writes:
> I'm putting together a system that might need to generate thousands of RSA
> keypairs per day, using OpenSSL on a "handful" of Linux machines. What do
> folks think of the following: take one machine and dedicate it as an entropy
> source. After 'n' seconds turn the network card into promiscuous mode, scoop
Why don't you stick a sound card (the noisier, the better) into each
node, and dump /dev/dsp (LSB) input at max amplification into the
randomness pool?
