[Cryptography] The Crypto Pi

Bill Frantz frantz at pwpconsult.com
Mon Jan 12 18:39:44 EST 2015


On 1/12/15 at 2:12 PM, crypto at senderek.ie (Ralf Senderek) wrote:

>Do you know how trustworthy the onboard RNG on the Raspberry Pi is? Are
>there any references that convinced you to put some faith into its
>performance?

One advantage of a machine like the Pi is that there is low 
level access to I/O pins, so it should be easy to add a hardware 
random number generator and get the data into the system.

I don't know if Paul is doing this, but adding it should be 
straight forward.

Cheers - Bill

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