I have written a demon for Linux that gathers entropy from timer jitter and pushes it into random(4). Comment and criticism solicited.
There is working code and a PDF rationale document, but it is not finished. Things I know are wrong are that I have not got the manual page format right yet and it currently sends error messages to stderr rather than to syslog, which is rather dumb for a demon process. There may be other things; you tell me. It is at: ftp://ftp.cs.sjtu.edu.cn:990/sandy/maxwell/ That should be available for anon FTP, but I have not tested it from outside the university. If it does not work for you, send an off-list request and I can email the tar file. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
