Am Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2013, 23:46:26 schrieb Andy Isaacson: Hi Andy,
I'd also like to see a default parameter file, guaranteed to give some entropy on a lowest common denominator device. I'm not sure if that is possible.
The Turbid paper seems focused on generating a few KiB/sec of physical randomness, continuously. The actual problem facing users today is getting 100 bits of randomness, *ever*, to seed urandom.
This seems like a classic example of engineering building a system that's far beyond spec for the problem it's actually supposed to solve, and incapable of adressing the actual problem due to overengineered complexity.
Turbid fails the first rule: build systems for people to actually use.
Maybe CPU Jitter RNG provided on www.chronox.de helps here? The test results are prepared on a plethora of different CPUs, operating systems and compilers and thus should cover 95% of all users (I am trying to get test results for iOS to cover 99% of all users). (disclaimer: I wrote the code and I may be biased in the judgment) Ciao Stephan