Raspberry pi safe?

[Cathal (Phone)]

The SOC in a raspi is probably no worse than the rest, but consider that the natural entropy available (for Crypto) to a SOC is much lower than a multi-component system like a laptop or tower. The Raspi 1.xx has an onboard entropy chip you can enable, if you trust it, and there'll be a new device in /dev you can read raw entropy from. Write that to /dev/random to seed the system pool and use /dev/urandom as your actual source.

Personally I'd draw from several sources to feed /dev/random: an internal hash-chain (quick Python script) (re)seeded on a password and urandom periodically, the hardware entropy generator, Ubuntu's seed server.. don't trust one source, mash them up once a minute/hour and feed them to /dev/random.

On 15 April 2015 09:18:11 GMT+01:00, Edd thompson <blukami at gmail.com> wrote:
>I am saving my pennies to build my pc that will be relatively secure
>and
>private.
>Raspberry pi b+
>Cell shield add on for above
>Prepaid sim (paid in cash)
>Bluetooth stick
>Wifi stick (looking for one with least security issues but they all
>seem to
>be in bed with Al-Shaitain)
>Lcd screen
>Sdr transceiver
>
>Punch the security holes that you see or possibly give me better
>substitutes
>Thanks for your time
>TTFN

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