Thanks again both.
On 10/21/2017 04:11 AM, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
[email protected] writes:
I found this seemingly cool product, a pci-e hardware RNG that
produces a large stream of "truly random" "quantum" random numbers.
...
I am curious what the deal with this is, does it really work? what is
the use case for this? does anyone here have one?
I have a competitor, http://www.entropykey.co.uk / apt-get install
ekeyd, which I fear isn't being made any more. It's useful sometimes.
"Arnt, marketing just signed a deal fory x with y, and we need 5000
coupon codes, they really should be impossible to guess". What these
devices does is basically keep /dev/random topped up, even if the host
is a rackmounted server and you need a half-megabyte of random bits in
short order.
I bought them when some software insisted on using /dev/random
(because security), emptied the pool and an important service grew
unresponsive.
Ah neat.
Do you know any alternative open source products that are actually being
sold?
Hmm also does a HW-RNG (a real one not intel's junk) improve crypto
security for disks, vpn's etc? This is not my field of expertise :[
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