[Cryptography] The world's most secure TRNG

ianG iang at iang.org
Sun Sep 28 22:44:08 EDT 2014


On 28/09/2014 04:27 am, Bill Cox wrote:
> I have a quick question for you guys.  For a USB stick TRNG, would you
> rather pay ~$15 for a 100K-byte/second source of true entropy, or ~$30
> for a 1M-byte/second source?


The former.  The generally advisable thing to do is to collect o(100)
and use that to seed a PRNG.

> I am currently designing a USB stick version of an INM to promote the
> architecture.  I plan to offer them for sale for what it costs me to
> build them, which in low volume I expect to be around $15 to $30
> depending on the speed target.  Schematics, board layout, and BOM will
> be made public-domain. ...


You might also want to look at http://onerng.info/ which has about the
same goals.


iang



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