Scott Long wrote this message on Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 10:04 -0600:
> > On Jul 25, 2015, at 8:36 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <da...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 07:59:35AM +0100, Mark R V Murray wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>> Heck, piping in mic data to /dev/random is a good way to seed the
> >>> rng on many machines.
> >>
> >> Well, sure, but what if you don't have microphone? I want lots
> >> of choices, in anticipation of only a subset being usable.
> >
> > I like the microphone idea. Not just it adds another hard-to-mess-with
> > (?) entropy source, it can also be a nice "reference" example for people
> > wanting to write their own sources and plug them into the RNG framework.
> >
>
> Microphones don???t typically exist on virtual machines, servers,
> appliances/embedded gadgets, and trusted computers. Nice idea for the
> desktop, but far from universal.
virtual machines have things like virtio_random, most embedded gadgets
have an ADC that could be used... Appliances a little more difficult,
but trusted computers probably have a hardware RNG anyways...
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