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OK, so to conclude the previous thread - I bought an entropy key from |
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the nice folks at Simtec via http://entropykey.co.uk |
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Short version is you plug it in, install the ekeyd package and even on a |
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hardened installation the entropy pool never deviates from full up... |
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Now, at £30 it seems like a bargain for a fancy random number generator, |
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but then I read that the daemon can be switched to pipe the data out in |
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"egd" format and essentially you can have one machine supply high |
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volumes of random numbers for a fair number of networked clients. In my |
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case this solves the problem of how to pipe entropy to some cheap rented |
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servers where we don't get to touch the physical hardware... Very nice |
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I have no relationship with the entropy-key guys other than being a |
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happy customer. They seem like a small shop and I think they deserve a |
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plug (and really need to work on their presence via google... Searches |
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on this stuff only turn up $400 alternatives... Sheesh) |
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Ed W |