[Cryptography] Proper Entropy Source
John-Mark Gurney
jmg at funkthat.com
Thu Jan 30 15:13:09 EST 2020
John Denker via cryptography wrote this message on Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 12:14 -0700:
> There are some server-class boards out there that
> lack a sound card, but that is a fixable problem.
> Fixable at very low cost.
Nothing a $7-10 USB audio dongle can't fix + a line in crontab:
5 */3 * * * root dd if=/dev/dsp bs=4096 count=1 2>/dev/null | sha512 > /dev/random
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