On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:56 PM, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
Problem is, apparently no one is solving it, so round and round it goes...
Now if someone would just sell a completely open discrete logic serial port hw entropy source for under $50... that would end a lot of the talk. Even with a more costly radiation source rather than other phenomena you'd still likely make good profit ...
If you have an audio device free or can add one and are using Linux, I'd say Turbid is the obvious solution: http://www.av8n.com/turbid/paper/turbid.htm Open source, available for over a decade, well thought out and well documented. It even has a proof, using only some quite mild assumptions, that it gives almost perfect entropy in the output. What's not to like? If you are on Linux, getting Turbid into your distro might well be the most important RNG work you could do. For Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591472 If you are concerned with other systems, it might well be worth considering whether Turbid could be ported. It appears better than anything else I have seen because it is the only one with a proof of randomness, and as far as I can tell the proof is solid.