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If a machine is land locked without good sources of entropy, maybe it can go out to the internet for some nice randomness.
by ape4 11y ago
If a machine is land locked without good sources of entropy, maybe it can go out to the internet for some nice randomness.
- twic 11y agoPerhaps some lovely clean Irish randomness: https://www.random.org/ https://www.random.org/ Sadly, LavaRand, the connoisseur's choice of internet randomness, is no longer with us: http://web.archive.org/web/20010926221159/http://lavarand.sgi.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20010926221159/http://lavarand.sg...
- ts4z 11y agoSee lavarnd.org for a modernized (2003) version.
- cpeterso 11y agoIf the machine truly has little entropy to start, it might have trouble establishing a secure TLS connection to the remote source. That said, here is my little "wwwrand" script, that assumes Google News will return unpredictable and unrepeatable content. You could also throttle curl using --limit-rate to generate more interrupts for strace to log. nice -n 19 strace -CTiv -ttt curl -LNv https://news.google.com https://news.google.com 2>&1 | shasum -a 512
- ape4 11y agoI see random.org has an api https://api.random.org/json-rpc/1/ https://api.random.org/json-rpc/1/
- Natanael_L 11y agoYou need randomness to securely connect over TLS. If you have that, why go fetch more?
- jwilk 11y agohttps://blog.mozilla.org/warner/2014/03/04/remote-entropy/ https://blog.mozilla.org/warner/2014/03/04/remote-entropy/