On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 4:37 PM, BMF <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 4:27 PM, coderman <[email protected]> wrote: > > how many of you have a competent userspace entropy > > daemon funneling hardware sources into host pool? > > It would be nice if there were inexpensive hardware sources available > and a means to distribute the entropy among hosts in one's own trusted > infrastructure. I have a mail server, a name server, an ntp server > (usually several), among various other sorts of pieces of > infrastructure which serve hundreds or even thousands of servers. Why > not an entropy server? It would be nice if I could setup an entropy > generating black box somewhere and attach it via USB to my entropy > server host then install a package with a config file on all of my > machines pointing to the entropy host. But so far I know of no such > thing. Do you? > > Don't we have hardware RNG in most motherboard chipsets nowadays? (Not that you should exclusively trust it, but the nature of RNG's is that it's easy to mix in sources.)
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