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Re: best way to create entropy?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Lassoff)
Thu Oct 11 20:08:31 2012
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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:08:00 -0700
From: Jonathan Lassoff <jof@thejof.com>
To: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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.
Cheers,
jof
