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best way to create entropy?
- Subject: best way to create entropy?
- From: jasper at pointless.net (Jasper Wallace)
- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:11:20 +0100 (BST)
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Dan White wrote:
> 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.
and with ekeyd-egd-linux you can distribute the entropy from an entropykey
over the net - great for giving vm some randomness.
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