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From: "Luis E. Garcia" <luis@bitamins.net>
To: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Cc: "cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net"
	<cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net>,
	Josh Datko <jbdatko@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] pcengines apu2c4 hardware random number generation
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 17:16:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALnBQ5kUzKYGg3tpqK=zSk=sB32jDoT_zWiP1xnRTuWh4E1+ug@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA93jw4PDKEApsZxKMed7Z6rq=DU=a4-zJEbJ=_8syF9Be_fzA@mail.gmail.com>

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Dave,
Can you give me more details on how you were genereating Randon Numbers and
how did you run out of them.

Luis

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:

> one of the few flaws in this board so far is that it does not appear
> the GX-412TC in it has a hardware random number generator.
>
> (yes, I just ran it out of random numbers)
>
> There are ton of "hardware random number generators out there" - quite
> a few fairly "cheap" ones on usb.
>
> The board has internal usb headers, gpios, and i2c. Any other means of
> generating good random numbers?
>
> http://pcengines.ch/pdf/apu2.pdf
>
> so I figure that there might be something even simpler out there from
> the pi-ish or beaglebone world that could be repurposed to suit?
>
> I've always wanted to have *3* hwrngs - one designed by the NSA,
> another by the KGB, and one by open source folk, and to mix them
> together.
>
> --
> Dave Täht
> Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software!
> http://blog.cerowrt.org
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-05  0:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-04 23:28 Dave Taht
2016-05-05  0:16 ` Luis E. Garcia [this message]
2016-05-05  0:54   ` Dave Taht
2016-05-05 16:10 ` Josh Datko
2016-05-06 20:19   ` Dave Taht
2016-05-09 15:10     ` Josh Datko

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