The hardware-RNG somehow slipped under my radar. Thanks for pointing that out.
Out of curiosity: how does GnuPG deal with a system where entropy is scarce (or worse yet, where the RNG is partly predictable)? Cheers, Johannes On Friday 08 November 2013 08:31:09 René Puls wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 08 Nov 2013 00:11:38 +0100 Johannes Zarl <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > I'm currently thinking about using a raspberry pi as a non-networked > > stand- alone system for signing keys. Since I haven't heard anything > > to the contrary, I'm pretty sure that entropy is relatively scarce on > > the pi. > > The Raspberry Pi has a hardware RNG that is supported by rng-tools, > which is more than most desktop PCs have: > > http://scruss.com/blog/2013/06/07/well-that-was-unexpected-the-raspberry-pis > -hardware-random-number-generator/ > > Not sure about its quality though... > > René _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
