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best way to create entropy?
- Subject: best way to create entropy?
- From: dwhite at olp.net (Dan White)
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:54:53 -0500
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On 10/11/12?17:08?-0700, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us at 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.
+1.
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Dan White