On 10/11/12, shawn wilson <ag4ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > in the past, i've done many different things to create entropy - > encode videos, watch youtube, tcpdump -vvv > /dev/null, compiled a > kernel. but, what is best? just whatever gets your cpu to peak or are
You are referring to the entropy pool used for /dev/random and crypto operations ? You could setup a video capture card or radio tuner card, tune it into a good noise source, and arrange for the bit stream to get written to /dev/random Because anything written to /dev/random gets mixed in / XOR'ed into the entropy pool > some tasks better than others? > -- -JH
