30 Jan
2018
30 Jan
'18
1:18 a.m.
Hi Gerald,
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 06:33:30PM +0000, Gerald Davies wrote:
Apologies for resurrecting this thread, but I do
occasionally look at
devices like this and wondered if you had kept up-to-date with the
market for them and, if so, had any thoughts on any of the
alternatives?
I haven't really kept up, I'm afraid.
At the point where the manufacturer of the EntropyKey folded, I had
two of them in production and one spare. It seems clear that even a
single EntropyKey would keep up with demand, so I'm not overly
concerned.
Nevertheless I did pick up a couple of OneRNG devices a few years
ago:
<http://onerng.info/>
Aside from verifying that they work I haven't put any into
production use and I'm not sure I ever will because probably the
EntropyKeys will last a very long time.
I was convinced by <https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/> that
/dev/urandom is good enough on modern Linux and any software that
demands /dev/random is deficient. The purpose of this thread was to
see if people were aware of such stubborn software was in wide use.
It got a few replies but it seems that insistence on /dev/random is
rightly fading away so my interest in hardware RNG has faded.
In my opinion BitFolk's wiki article on the Entropy service needs
rewriting to stress that software should be using urandom.
Cheers,
Andy
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