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I wonder how hard it is to build something like that using the mic input. Or perhaps measuring the noise on a spare 802.11 card. I know in general it is not easy to add a kernel facility that will be widely available, but how hard is it to build a physical RNG if your specific case demands high entropy and you do not want/need a commercial product?


There is already a project whose name sadly escapes me that does this, using information theory to derive lower bounds on the number of bits of entropy in data read from a line-in jack.

EDIT: I'm thinking of Turbid: http://www.av8n.com/turbid/paper/turbid.htm

EDIT2: There's also a wealth of information in this thread from the metzdowd cryptography mailing list: http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2013-Septembe...


is it VanHeusden's audio_entropyd? [1]

They also provide a timer and video based entropy daemons too.

[1] http://www.vanheusden.com/aed/




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