Hi all, Just for fun and because I have extra Gnuk tokens lying around, I'd like to try writing a program for my libreCMC router that feeds the Linux entropy pool with data from the token's true RNG. The help text for scdaemon states > # RANDOM <nbytes> > # > # Get NBYTES of random from the card and send them back as data. > # This usually involves EEPROM write on the card and thus excessive > # use of this command may destroy the card.
I note that the help text says "usually." Can anyone confirm whether Gnuks specifically do a ROM write in this case? If they still do the write, I have a follow-up question. I also notice that OpenSC has the feature to get an arbitrary number of random bytes from the card with its OpenPGP module (it's not limited to 256 like requests to scdaemon are), like this: $ pkcs11-tool --generate-random 1024 I realize this isn't the list for OpenSC questions, but does this probably use the same mechanism under-the-hood and hence invoke a write as well, or is there a chance that it avoids the write? Thanks for the excellent libre software, and happy hacking
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