best way to create entropy?

Sat Oct 13 22:11:20 UTC 2012

On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Dan White wrote:

> On 10/11/12 17:08 -0700, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > in the past, i've done many different things to create entropy -
> > > encode videos, watch youtube, tcpdump -vvv > /dev/null, compiled a
> > > kernel. but, what is best? just whatever gets your cpu to peak or are
> > > some tasks better than others?
> > 
> > Personally, I've used and recommend this USB stick:
> > http://www.entropykey.co.uk/
> > 
> > Internally, it uses diodes that are reverse-biased just ever so close
> > to the breakdown voltage such that they randomly flip state back and
> > forth.
> 
> +1.

and with ekeyd-egd-linux you can distribute the entropy from an entropykey 
over the net - great for giving vm some randomness.

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