June 12, 2016
12:28 a.m.
On 06/11/2016 05:16 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Use a Raspberry-Pi, or other advanced expensive<wink/> hardware. There's no real excuse for not having a hardware generator if the Pi has one!
Intel CPUs added the RDRAND instruction as of Ivy Bridge, although there's an ongoing debate as to whether or not it's a suitable source of entropy to use for seeding urandom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RdRand#Reception Wikipedia goes on to describe the very-new RDSEED instruction which might be more suitable. //arry/