Has anyone tried using an entropy broker (see https://lwn.net/Articles/546428/) for sharing entropy between devices on a physical network? https://we.riseup.net/debian/entropy#entropy-key seems to suggest that this is something that people do. On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:56 PM, David Honig <dahonig@cox.net> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> wrote:
My /dev/random generates a few hundred kilobytes a day. I exchange OTPs
A long time ago I bought a geiger counter for crypto exploration. Problem is, you can't buy rad sources strong enough to generate enough entropy (which is *still* subject to conditioning of course, despite the hype, and any way a GM tube will saturate..). Even if you take your smoke detector apart and use an alpha-windowed tube.
But a detuned FM radio card seemed to do quite well. Admittedly, no white vans driving my amps. Are these sources not supported as entropy sources? (Pardon my linux randomness being out of date)
Also, why u no trust Intel's RNG? :-)
Physical otp key exchange can't be beaten... unless your correspondent is beaten.. silk burns clean, cyanide terminates the session
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