Re: [gentoo-hardened] Bought an "entropy-key" - very happy

[Tom Hendrikx <tom@whyscream.net>]

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On 25/03/10 21:34, Ed W wrote:
> On 25/03/2010 20:11, Rob Kendrick wrote:
>> ...
>> It's a pretty standard trick.  What's special is that it uses two, and
>> mixes the contents together, and so it can detect when one fails.  Oh,
>> and its price.  (Other, much less sophisticated devices, cost as much
>> as ten times more and are toys in terms of their security against
>> attack.)
>>    
> 
> It seems that you get quite a lot of tech here for the price?  Seems
> pretty decent that you can pickup an ARM processor, temp sensor and all
> the other bits for around £30..  I presume they are shifting quite a few
> since that seems like quite a mass market price?
> 
> I noticed a munin script in the ekeyd download - haven't tried it, but
> the quantity of variables you can monitor from the device seemed quite
> impressive.  Who would have thought you would have wanted to graph the
> temperature of your random number generator, but for those who do, you
> are in luck...
> 

Please stop writing about all these fancy features. I feel an increasing
need to take out my credit card, even though I have no direct need for a
RNG right now. :)

At that price, it even invites for funshopping!

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Regards,
	Tom


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