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Re: best way to create entropy?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jasper Wallace)
Sat Oct 13 18:11:38 2012
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:11:20 +0100 (BST)
From: Jasper Wallace <jasper@pointless.net>
To: Dan White <dwhite@olp.net>
In-Reply-To: <20121012035453.GA9743@dan.olp.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Dan White wrote:
> On 10/11/12=A017:08=A0-0700, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
> > > 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?
> >=20
> > Personally, I've used and recommend this USB stick:
> > http://www.entropykey.co.uk/
> >=20
> > 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.
>=20
> +1.
and with ekeyd-egd-linux you can distribute the entropy from an entropykey=
=20
over the net - great for giving vm some randomness.
--=20
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