On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:46 PM, coderman <coder...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) > <li...@infosecurity.ch> wrote: >> ... >> i found such a very nice piece of software that's said to provide added >> entropy using HAVEGE algorithm: >> http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/ >> http://www.irisa.fr/caps/projects/hipsor/ >> >> Any opinion on the usefulness of that kind of tool as an additional >> entropy source for crypto operations on a Linux system? > > do it yesterday! i have been using this (haveged) for many years, in > addition to physical entropy sources, and it is very much a useful > addition to host entropy sources. Yes. See here for another one, possibly more suitable on very limited systems like phones or routers, and a PDF that discusses several others including Havege. ftp://ftp.cs.sjtu.edu.cn:990/sandy/maxwell/ _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
