Hi, Arnt Gulbrandsen writes:
> taii...@gmx.com writes: >> I found this seemingly cool product, a pci-e hardware RNG that >> produces a large stream of "truly random" "quantum" random >> numbers. > ... >> I am curious what the deal with this is, does it really work? >> what is the use case for this? does anyone here have one? > > I have a competitor, http://www.entropykey.co.uk / apt-get install ekeyd, > which I fear isn't being made any more. It's useful sometimes. "Arnt, > marketing just signed a deal fory x with y, and we need 5000 coupon codes, > they really should be impossible to guess". What these devices does is > basically keep /dev/random topped up, even if the host is a rackmounted > server and you need a half-megabyte of random bits in short order. I have used the `haveged` package to keep my /dev/urandom "topped up" when randomizing disks. Greatly shortened the time needed to fill my disks. No idea about the quality of randomness, though. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
