Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!newsfeed.in-ulm.de!not-for-mail From: Christian Neukirchen Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: OneRNG: Open Hardware Random Number Generator Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 15:41:37 +0100 Organization: [ posted via ] IN-Ulm Lines: 21 Message-ID: <87a94f0wgu.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: news.in-ulm.de 42636BDEAC4F0002FF7C5AC798002B57 In-Reply-To: (Tonton Th's message of "28 Oct 2014 22:34:37 GMT") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:5468 Tonton Th writes: > On 2014-10-28, Oregonian Haruspex wrote: >> >>> http://onerng.info/ >>> >>> OneRNG collects entropy from an avalanche diode circuit, and from a >>> channel-hopping RF receiver. It even has a "tinfoil hat" to prevent RF >>> interference - you can remove the hat in order to visually verify the >>> components being used. >> >> Seems neat but there are already many ways to gather entropy from sound >> cards and other parts of the system, which satisfy randomness. If > > No audio input on a RasPi. But a native RNG: http://scruss.com/blog/2013/06/07/well-that-was-unexpected-the-raspberry-pis-hardware-random-number-generator/ -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org