Python Random Number Generator for OTP

Ron Perry ronperry at cryptogroup.net
Tue Jul 23 02:52:02 PDT 2013


On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 08:31:16 +0200
Yan Zhu <yan at mit.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org>
> wrote:
> Is there a secure way to timeshare a single entropy source such as an
> entropy key? High-quality entropy sources are often fragile,
> expensive, or difficult to manufacture and maintain. If Alice has a
> friggin' amazing entropy source, and Bob wants to use it from afar,
> what would be the best way for Alice to let Bob retrieve data from
> the entropy source when she wasn't using it?

Reasonably good hardware RNGs are widely available. Just get yourself a
RaspberryPI and use it for RN and keygen and crypto and airgapped
computing and....



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