| |||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||
EntropyEntropyPosted Jun 19, 2010 2:07 UTC (Sat) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)In reply to: Entropy by tamasrepus Parent article: https-everywhere from the EFF The obvious solution is a hardware true RNG. There are plenty of sources of truly random noise- thermal noise, radio static, etc.- that you can use as a source of entropy if it's important. I know that both Intel and Via have included hardware RNGs in quite ordinary systems, and there may be others that I'm not aware of. Lack of good entropy sources for SSL shouldn't be a problem.
(Log in to post comments)
Entropy Posted Jun 21, 2010 20:46 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
And thanks to the guys at entropykey.co.uk, true hardware RNGs don't even cost much and are Linux-friendly (I don't think it's *possible* to be more Debian-friendly than they are) and seriously well-designed (hardware and software both).
Every headless server should have one :)
Entropy Posted Jun 21, 2010 20:52 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Argh. Watch the idiot not read the whole thread. I wish you could delete your own posts on LWN...
|
|
||||||||||||