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@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. -- [http://pointless.net/] [0x2ECA0975]