Re: best way to create entropy?

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?

-- -JH