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2005 Mar 07
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New entropy source proposal.
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It produce very good entropy. I tried those tests to prove its quality:
- FIPS 140-2 tests
- 'ent' tests: http://www.fourmilab.ch/random/
- Famous 'diehard' tests
The full output from diehard tests is here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/misc/sndrand_diehard.txt
The idea of using sound card as entropy source was taken from RFC 1750.
If people like the idea and someone more skilled than me in this subject
can review this stuff, we can start to put it into kernel
"random infrastructure". It could also be implemented as userland daemon
which w...