And, boom. OneRNG just blasted through its $10k ask. This project
races ahead. I'd like to think that the depth of support indicates we
really do have a need for vibrant cheap open RNGs. The more the merrier.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moonbaseotago/onerng-an-open-source-entropy-generator
Paul tells me over-funding will be used to do a bigger run. So we can
pretty reliably predict that these things will happen sometime after Jan
when it closes.
Probably still a good idea to support the project because you get sent a
unit anyway, and more funds will almost certainly lead to other benefits.
iang
On 16/12/2014 16:39 pm, ianG wrote:
Surprisingly, the OneRNG project is already half way to the goal of $10k
NZD after only a week.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moonbaseotago/onerng-an-open-source-entropy-generator
One reason I really like this project is that it is hopefully totally
open. If we can seed the world with open hardware designs, we can have
a chance of leaking this project into all sorts of other things like
home routers, IoT things, Bitcoin hardware wallets etc.
iang
On 15/12/2014 19:18 pm, ianG wrote:
After Edward Snowden's recent revelations about how compromised our
internet security has become some people have worried about whether the
hardware we're using is compromised - is it? We honestly don't know, but
like a lot of people we're worried about our privacy and security.
What we do know is that the NSA has corrupted some of the random number
generators in the OpenSSL software we all use to access the internet,
and has paid some large crypto vendors millions of dollars to make their
software less secure. Some people say that they also intercept hardware
during shipping to install spyware.
We believe it's time we took back ownership of the hardware we use day
to day. This project is one small attempt to do that - OneRNG is an
entropy generator, it makes long strings of random bits from two
independent noise sources that can be used to seed your operating
system's random number generator. This information is then used to
create the secret keys you use when you access web sites, or use
cryptography systems like SSH and PGP.
Openness is important, we're open sourcing our hardware design and our
firmware, our board is even designed with a removable RF noise shield (a
'tin foil hat') so that you can check to make sure that the circuits
that are inside are exactly the same as the circuits we build and sell.
In order to make sure that our boards cannot be compromised during
shipping we make sure that the internal firmware load is signed and
cannot be spoofed.
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