Hello! I have a hardware rng for the parallel port of the pc. The device ( the rp1 from http://www.true-random.com ) produces a constant stream of random bytes at 1 MB/s and it passes the diehard tests as well as some others mentioned on the website.
My question now is: If I take the stream of data, slicing it into N chunks of 500 kB over some kind of ring buffer and send the chunk over the network to feed N computers /dev/random will that suffice and keep the entropy so that those tests will still be passed? I am not the mathematician, we had affine geometry instead of probabilistic theory at school ;) Second question: If I use ssh for the transmission, will that have influence on the quality of the data; I mean encrypting random data will that lower the entropy anyhow? Thank you for your time, Robert ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
