It's always a good idea to use several entropy sources and cryptographically mix their outputs into your pool. They won't reduce your total entropy either way, any predictable sources will only be adding less entropy than promised.
- Sent from my phone Den 19 dec 2013 09:19 skrev "Joachim Strömbergson" <[email protected] >: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Aloha! > > Here is a question: If we (barely) trust RdRand enough to use it as an > entropy source in combination with another source to feed our RNG - > would it be wise to use another CPU-based entropy source such ad Haveged > [1], DakaRand [2], Jytter [3] or the CPU Jitter Random Number Generator > [3] by Stephan Müller? Or should the second one alway be a CPU-external > source? > > A tengential question - is running these entropy sources ([1]..[2]) in > parallel a good idea? > > > [1] http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/ > [2] http://dankaminsky.com/2012/08/15/dakarand/ > [3] http://jytter.blogspot.se/ > [4] http://www.chronox.de/ > > - -- > Med vänlig hälsning, Yours > > Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning. > ======================================================================== > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.22 (Darwin) > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlKyq/cACgkQZoPr8HT30QGALACeJhV2LbPEpMHQQl0GteZEVNmq > kVYAn3YGrGKTgUgzUSlB8exFvbCMJDI3 > =qTBy > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography >
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