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For many years, I've been considering purchasing one of these: http://www.entropykey.co.uk/ http://www.entropykey.co.uk/ I honestly don't know why we're using

by Nrsolis 13y ago

For many years, I've been considering purchasing one of these: http://www.entropykey.co.uk/ http://www.entropykey.co.uk/ I honestly don't know why we're using anything other than provable randomness using discrete entropy sources in this day and age. IIRC, even the Raspberry Pi has an entropy generator on-board. I haven't verified this though.

exceptione 13y ago
From the website Please note that there is a very long waiting period for Entropy Keys at the moment. Likely more people got this idea.
- Nrsolis 13y ago
  Not exactly: On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 08:11:13AM -0500, Robert Lee wrote: > This is unfortunate. I do hope they are not going out of business. We've gone through a major crisis, but are still here... just. To say any more in public at this stage might be unwise from a legal standpoint. We currently have no manufacturing capability for ekeys but are working towards getting things up and running again. There's no timescale on that yet, I'm afraid. -- Paul Martin <pm at simtec.co.uk> Simtec Electronics http://www.simtec.co.uk/ http://www.simtec.co.uk/
DanBC 13y ago
Lots of things I've seen show hardware random number generators to be flawed. That particular device looks much better than those older devices. (http://www.robertnz.net/hwrng.htm http://www.robertnz.net/hwrng.htm) (http://www.robertnz.net/true_rng.html http://www.robertnz.net/true_rng.html) EDIT: here are some more devices, but I have no idea if these are any good. (http://www.westphal-electronic.com/ http://www.westphal-electronic.com/) (http://www.trng98.se/shop/index.php http://www.trng98.se/shop/index.php) (http://www.comscire.com/ http://www.comscire.com/) (http://www.idquantique.com/random-number-generators/products.html http://www.idquantique.com/random-number-generators/products...) (http://www.letech.jpn.com/ http://www.letech.jpn.com/)

by Nrsolis 13y ago

exceptione 13y ago

From the website Please note that there is a very long waiting period for Entropy Keys at the moment. Likely more people got this idea.

Nrsolis 13y ago
Not exactly: On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 08:11:13AM -0500, Robert Lee wrote: > This is unfortunate. I do hope they are not going out of business. We've gone through a major crisis, but are still here... just. To say any more in public at this stage might be unwise from a legal standpoint. We currently have no manufacturing capability for ekeys but are working towards getting things up and running again. There's no timescale on that yet, I'm afraid. -- Paul Martin <pm at simtec.co.uk> Simtec Electronics http://www.simtec.co.uk/ http://www.simtec.co.uk/

DanBC 13y ago

Lots of things I've seen show hardware random number generators to be flawed. That particular device looks much better than those older devices. (http://www.robertnz.net/hwrng.htm http://www.robertnz.net/hwrng.htm) (http://www.robertnz.net/true_rng.html http://www.robertnz.net/true_rng.html) EDIT: here are some more devices, but I have no idea if these are any good. (http://www.westphal-electronic.com/ http://www.westphal-electronic.com/) (http://www.trng98.se/shop/index.php http://www.trng98.se/shop/index.php) (http://www.comscire.com/ http://www.comscire.com/) (http://www.idquantique.com/random-number-generators/products.html http://www.idquantique.com/random-number-generators/products...) (http://www.letech.jpn.com/ http://www.letech.jpn.com/)