Messages in this thread | | | From | Sandy Harris <> | Date | Wed, 18 Jul 2018 16:22:35 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] random: addu a config option to trust the CPU's hwrng |
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Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> For those people who are super paranoid and want a "true > random number generator" (and the meaning of that is hazy) because a > CRNG is Not Enough, my recommendation these days is that they get > something like an open hardware RNG solution, such as ChaosKey from > Altus Metrum[1]. > > [1] https://altusmetrum.org/ChaosKey/
Yes & one of those can also solve any difficulty with random(4) at startup. Another alternative, perhaps easier on some systems, is Denker's Turbid trng: https://www.av8n.com/turbid/paper/turbid.htm
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