Some interesting associated projects

[Josh Datko]

Hey Jim and OneRNGers!

I'll spend some time reading the backlog but I noticed that you've guys have found my website already :)

The ICs on the devices I make do claim to have HWRNG on them, but unfortunately, the information is proprietary. My best guess is that they use thermal noise to generate a random seed and then PRNG from there. I've been using mainly the Atmel chips so far.

The BeagleBone does claim to have a TRNG, but documentation from TI is very sparse. There is a kernel driver though: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/char/hw_random/omap-rng.c

The CryptoCape comes out Friday via SparkFun and we are working through the export paperwork. The design is open source hardware and I've written two user space applications for two of the Atmel chips (one does SHA256 the other ECDSA with NIST curves).

On my growing todo list is developing a kernel module that will allow the random command from these devices (over I2C) to be mixed into the entropy pool.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to reading more about your project.

Josh