On Oct 12, 2012, at 4:27 AM, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from "Naslund, Steve" <[email protected]> ----- > > From: "Naslund, Steve" <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:27:56 -0500 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: best way to create entropy? > > I know that a popular method for generating random bit streams is to take > radio (stellar) noise and convert it into a digital bit stream.
That's a stellar idea…. :-P > Very popular among crypto geeks. > W > Steven Naslund > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan White [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 10:55 PM > To: Jonathan Lassoff > Cc: North American Network Operators Group > Subject: Re: best way to create entropy? > > On 10/11/12 17:08 -0700, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM, shawn wilson <[email protected]> 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. > > -- > Dan White > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > -- > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org > ______________________________________________________________ > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography > -- She'd even given herself a middle initial - X - which stood for "someone who has a cool and exciting middle name". -- (Terry Pratchett, Maskerade) _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
