[Cryptech Tech] Hardware entropy

Joachim Strömbergson joachim at secworks.se
Fri May 23 13:55:00 UTC 2014


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Aloha!

Bernd Paysan wrote:
> Yes.  But please, spell my name right: it's "Bernd Paysan" without a
> t in the copyright message.  Otherwise I don't care.

Sorry, My bad. Will fix and add proper clause.

> You are using the a delay length of 8, and read it out slowly, though
> my suggestion was to use a shorter delay (2), and read it out more
> frequently, to produce more entropy in a shorter time (the quality,
> i.e. bias of the entropy is then lower, but the overall entropy is
> higher).

Ok. I'll try that. I used your code verbatim from what you posted to the
tech list.

- -- 
Med vänlig hälsning, Yours

Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning.
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 Joachim Strömbergson          Secworks AB          joachim at secworks.se
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