From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NuAv9-00089g-2q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:41:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A5722E0AE4; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:39:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail1.nippynetworks.com (mail1.nippynetworks.com [212.227.250.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72A97E0AE4 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:39:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mail1.nippynetworks.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.nippynetworks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE48E675162 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:39:32 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at nippynetworks.com Received: from mail1.nippynetworks.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail1.nippynetworks.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ghpysWqvLsc0 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:39:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from eds-mbp.wildgooses.local (office.nippynetworks.com [94.194.201.187]) (Authenticated sender: edward@wildgooses.com) by mail1.nippynetworks.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 90BCE675094 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:39:32 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4BA92703.4020200@wildgooses.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:39:31 +0000 From: Ed W User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-hardened] Bought an "entropy-key" - very happy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 8652d636-e7b8-4c76-a4fe-7f26d6443b38 X-Archives-Hash: 6b0d5834796c7227f5b0dfd9b3c0ccb6 OK, so to conclude the previous thread - I bought an entropy key from=20 the nice folks at Simtec via http://entropykey.co.uk Short version is you plug it in, install the ekeyd package and even on a = hardened installation the entropy pool never deviates from full up... Now, at =A330 it seems like a bargain for a fancy random number generator= ,=20 but then I read that the daemon can be switched to pipe the data out in=20 "egd" format and essentially you can have one machine supply high=20 volumes of random numbers for a fair number of networked clients. In my = case this solves the problem of how to pipe entropy to some cheap rented = servers where we don't get to touch the physical hardware... Very nice I have no relationship with the entropy-key guys other than being a=20 happy customer. They seem like a small shop and I think they deserve a=20 plug (and really need to work on their presence via google... Searches=20 on this stuff only turn up $400 alternatives... Sheesh) Ed W