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 1NuuJW-00035V-R9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:10:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 47DE9E084F; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:09:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a.mx.whyscream.net (meredith.tomhendrikx.nl [217.149.194.147]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F7DAE084F for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:09:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2001:7b8:371:0:21d:e0ff:fe10:b62d] (stella.tomhendrikx.nl [IPv6:2001:7b8:371:0:21d:e0ff:fe10:b62d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a.mx.whyscream.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ECD1E1002 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:09:34 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4BABD0E8.20000@whyscream.net> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:08:56 +0100 From: Tom Hendrikx User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100310 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: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Bought an "entropy-key" - very happy References: <4BA92703.4020200@wildgooses.com> <4BAB657C.8060309@wildgooses.com> <20100325201104.77d1c310@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net> <4BABC8E5.7040305@wildgooses.com> In-Reply-To: <4BABC8E5.7040305@wildgooses.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig426A2D743268A336E7E14894" X-Archives-Salt: bfee3e1d-9f0e-40f1-a7f3-9881faca19ff X-Archives-Hash: b3cb7b4e771793bc68bdf044616a6dd8 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig426A2D743268A336E7E14894 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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.) >> =20 >=20 > 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 =A330.. I presume they are shifting quite a = few > since that seems like quite a mass market price? >=20 > 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... >=20 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! --=20 Regards, Tom --------------enig426A2D743268A336E7E14894 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkur0O0ACgkQeEmCqmj6IjZ17wCfaTQaDldi7/FOkgV8+nP05orm p2sAoLtW50sNRr6lixDQ3r5ZG3Pi/r91 =M/dr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig426A2D743268A336E7E14894--