On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > in the past, i've done many different things to create entropy - > encode videos, watch youtube, tcpdump -vvv > /dev/null, compiled a > kernel. but, what is best? just whatever gets your cpu to peak or are > some tasks better than others?
Personally, I've used and recommend this USB stick: http://www.entropykey.co.uk/ Internally, it uses diodes that are reverse-biased just ever so close to the breakdown voltage such that they randomly flip state back and forth. Cheers, jof