[Cerowrt-devel] hwrngs

[Dave Taht]

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 8:17 AM,  <dpreed at 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....

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> On Saturday, February 1, 2014 11:11pm, "Dave Taht" <dave.taht at gmail.com>
> said:
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>> 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.
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>> I just ordered some of these
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>> http://cryptotronix.com/2013/12/27/hashlet_random_tests/
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>> 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.
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>> 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)
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>> --
>> Dave Täht
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