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haveged seems to work quite well and, before I started using it months ago, I ran some of its output through dieharder, ent, etc. There's also rngd which can a
by jlgaddis 13y ago
haveged seems to work quite well and, before I started using it months ago, I ran some of its output through dieharder, ent, etc.
There's also rngd which can also use the RNG in a TPM, if one is available.
- josh-wrale 13y agoThanks, that is helpful. I found the story of how haveged came to be, which was a surprise: https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=31111 https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=31111 I also found this. The answer for most part speaks to havege instead of haveged. The last part of the answer speaks to haveged. https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/8083/quality-of-randomness-on-a-linux-system-with-haveged https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/8083/quality-of-r...