On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 05:50:13PM -0400, Bill Horne wrote: > On 9/6/2014 4:17 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Bill Horne<[email protected]> wrote: > >>2. Does "doing other things" on the system contribute to the entropy pool? > >>In > >>other words, does Linux acquire randomness by monitoring the time between > >>keystrokes or mouse movements or similar "normal" events? > > > >Yes. Noise-bits from timing of Mouse, keyboard, and disk access are > >likely all to be harvested. > > > > Thanks, that's nice to know. > > Is there any way to speed the process? Short of putting up an > antenna and counting bits of static, how can I accumulate random > bits more quickly that by typing or moving the mouse? > > Long story short, must I tough it out and copy "War and Peace" by > hand in order to get enough entropy for a new key?
Run something disk intensive? Play a game? Go read usenet? Or you can buy a USB key with a hardware random number source on it. http://www.entropykey.co.uk/ among others. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
