[Cryptography] The Crypto Pi

Paul Elliott pelliott at blackpatchpanel.com
Wed Jan 14 20:33:53 EST 2015


On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 03:39:44PM -0800, Bill Frantz wrote:
> 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.
> 

You can put one of the usb based HRNG into the pi and share it with
your whole net.

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