[157253] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: best way to create entropy?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy Hess)
Thu Oct 11 20:20:12 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAH_OBiffdqVmwspu9f2uzr_cqnExuA_sLp=d0QhOxQWzkSgOZA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:20:02 -0500
From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.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 10/11/12, 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
You are referring to the entropy pool used for /dev/random and
crypto operations ?
You could setup a video capture card or radio tuner card, tune it into
a good noise source, and arrange for the bit stream to get written
to /dev/random
Because anything written to /dev/random gets mixed in / XOR'ed
into the entropy pool
> some tasks better than others?
>
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-JH
