adrelanos: > Hi, > > I've done a performance test to answer the following questions: > - Is randomsound faster than haveged or vice versa? > - Do they block each other or result in even more entropy available? >
I've given up on randomsound for actual long term use - it makes sound entirely unusable in non-obvious ways. I settled on rng-tools, ekeyd, haveged and ~60 seconds of randomsound; I kill randomsound after a minute so I may use audio again. All the best, Jacob > All tests have been done in Virtual Box. > > Every 1.0s: cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail > watch -n 1 cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail > > no package installed ~130 and ~180 > rng-tools in VM without rng hardware no effect > ekeyd in VM without entropykey no effect > randomsound only ~130 and ~3800 > haveged only ~1100 and ~4000 > randomsound and haveged ~1100 and ~4000 > > (~ is defined as, for exmaple ~1100 could be up to 1199.) > > Off topic: > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Generating_better_random_numbers#Dieharder > is an excellent source for information about entropy in general. > > I am conducting some entropy quality tests and will share the results soon. > > Cheers, > adrelanos > _______________________________________________ > tails-dev mailing list > tails-dev@boum.org > https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev > _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
