Ordered the RPi version (5 more in stock, if anyone wants one).  Thanks, Dave!
 


On Sunday, February 2, 2014 11:25am, "Dave Taht" <dave.taht@gmail.com> said:



> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 8:17 AM,  <dpreed@reed.com> wrote:
> > Any idea what the price will be in quantity?
> 
> No. Pretty cheap, it's a very tiny board....
> 
> http://cryptotronix.com/2013/12/27/hashlet_random_tests/
> 
> I got a discount for 5, and he has a couple left...
> 
> > The fact that it supports
> > both BB black and RPi is great news for makers interested in authentication
> > and security.
> 
> yep.
> 
> It is open hardware also, with a schematic supplied, open source
> driver (not a kernel driver yet), I was very happy to support this
> project.
> 
> I have looked for usb equivalents, btw, and haven't found anything
> inexpensive. And in the case of cero I'd wanted something that could
> run
> on the internal serial header...
> 
> I note that theoretically the BBB also has an on-cpu hwrng but
> documentation on it from TI is lacking. Perhaps someone could lean on
> TI to free that information up in the post-snowden era?
> 
> (my take on it is the more hwrngs the better, one from china, one from
> russia, one from the USA...)
> 
> /me goes back to converting his dns/mail/vpn server over to a BBB....
> 
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Saturday, February 1, 2014 11:11pm, "Dave Taht"
> <dave.taht@gmail.com>
> > said:
> >
> >> I am still quite irked by having to use /dev/urandom for important
> >> tasks like dnssec key generation, and in wireless WPA. And like
> >> others, distrust having only one source of random numbers in the mix.
> >>
> >> I just ordered some of these
> >>
> >> http://cryptotronix.com/2013/12/27/hashlet_random_tests/
> >>
> >> Simultaneously while I was getting nsupdate dns working on cerowrt
> >> from the yurt to the dynamic ipv6 stuff, my main dns server died, and
> >> I decided
> >> I'd move dns to a beaglebone black, so running across this hwrng made
> >> me feel better about randomness on embedded systems.
> >>
> >> I bought the last 5 Joshua had, sorry about that! I'd like to find
> >> something
> >> that could run off the internal serial port on the wndr3800s... and
> >> worth incorporating in future designs. (multiple vendors)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Dave Täht
> >>
> >> Fixing bufferbloat with cerowrt:
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> 
> 
> 
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> Dave Täht
> 
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