Hi, On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:07:30PM +0800, Sandy Harris wrote: > Sandy Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Almost all crypto needs random numbers, and much > > otherwise sound crypto is easily broken if it is used > > with a weak random source. > > > > ... > > > > Where the plug has a sound card equivalent, and > > it isn't used for sound, there is a good solution > > using circuit noise in the card as the basis for > > a hardware RNG. > > http://www.av8n.com/turbid/paper/turbid.htm > > That compiles without problems on Ubuntu, so > I assume on Debian. I have not yet gotten around > to the testing and packaging issues, and am not > likely to soon. Volunteers?
Giving the same feature, there is the haveged daemon, which is already packaged into Debian and working quite well and doesn't require to have a sound card and enable its microphone. bert. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
