<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.chronox.de/lrng.html">http://www.chronox.de/lrng.html</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(38,50,56);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px">you could use a strong DRBG such that you don't drain the Linux pool..</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>what version of Linux are you using?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 4:48 PM dev null zero two <<a href="mailto:dev.null.02@gmail.com">dev.null.02@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(38,50,56);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The high-level design description can produce entropy and th</span><span style="color:rgb(38,50,56);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ey expect 7.8 bits of entropy per byte.. t</span><span style="color:rgb(38,50,56);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px">his is likely nonsense, </span><span style="background-color:initial">d</span><span style="background-color:initial;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px">oesn’t seem worth $40...</span><div><span style="background-color:initial;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(38,50,56);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I assume you're using /dev/random (blocking interface) and not /dev/urandom (non-blocking interface)</span> ?<span style="background-color:initial;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(38,50,56);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px">do you have access to a modern Intel CPU with RDSEED instruction? that is a HW-based RNG with some claimable output entropy rate</span> <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 4:31 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="text-align:left;direction:ltr"><div>When the entropy pool gets low and all 200TB are encrypted, writes can slow down.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking at at hardware RNG devices. Found one that looks really cool, open, all the right buttons <a href="http://onerng.info/" target="_blank">http://onerng.info/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Anybody used something like this?</div><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
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gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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