[Cryptography] Thoughts on hardware randomness sources

Sandy Harris sandyinchina at gmail.com
Tue Sep 10 14:01:44 EDT 2013


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Marcus D. Leech <mleech at ripnet.com> wrote:
> I wonder what people's opinions are on things like the randomsound daemon
> that is available for Linux.

I have not looked at that. A well thought out & well documented
RNG based on a sound card is:
http://www.av8n.com/turbid/paper/turbid.htm

I wrote a very simple one (perhaps not yet trustworthy because
it has not had much analysis) based on timer calls. Its documentation
discusses a few others:
ftp://ftp.cs.sjtu.edu.cn:990/sandy/maxwell/


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