> I'm working on a cryptography project, and one of the things the project > requires is a moderately high-bandwidth source of truly random numbers.
... > P.S. I'm looking at different sources of random numbers, and cost and > integration are important factors. Would an AMD Geode LX or VIA C3 or C7 > processor's on-board RNG provide a significantly higher data rate than > a Soekris card, at a comparable quality? Until you can justify actual real scientific reasons why you cannot use it, I think you should use arc4random(). And I am entirely serious. The entire idea in OpenBSD is to have many consumers, as this strengthens the source.
