On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Dan White wrote: > On 10/11/12 17:08 -0700, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM, 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 > > > some tasks better than others? > > > > Personally, I've used and recommend this USB stick: > > http://www.entropykey.co.uk/ > > > > Internally, it uses diodes that are reverse-biased just ever so close > > to the breakdown voltage such that they randomly flip state back and > > forth. > > +1.
and with ekeyd-egd-linux you can distribute the entropy from an entropykey over the net - great for giving vm some randomness. -- [http://pointless.net/] [0x2ECA0975]