On Aug 19, 2013, at 7:46 PM, Peter Gutmann <pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> You can get them for as little as $50 in the form of USB-key media players > running Android. Or if you really insist on doing the whole thing yourself, > get something like an EA-XPR-003 ($29 in single-unit quantities from Digikey, > http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/EA-XPR-003/EA-XPR-003-ND/2410099) and > solder on a zener diode and a few I2C environmental sensors for > noise/unpredictability generation. > Peter. If someone is interested in building something like this, you may want to start with this simple project I posted on Github a while back. https://github.com/wyager/TeensyRNG It's a simple, but (I think) pretty secure hardware PRNG that takes environmental noise and securely mixes it into an internal entropy pool. It does a few nice things like input debiasing, cryptographic mixing, etc. With a few small changes you could slap it on pretty much any microcontroller or SoC and get a pretty decent entropy stick. I used the $19 teensy and it generates about 100 bytes/sec of what is probably pretty good pseudorandom data. No guarantees, of course. I probably made some fatal mistake that would render it useless in certain contexts, but like I said, it's a place to start. Will
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