[onerng talk] Temperature and Failure??

[Max Nager]

I'm still having issues getting mine to be recognized. I tried disabling the gpg signature verification but that didn't help.

Jeroen, you mentioned the OpenSSL package. What did you do for that?


Max



> On Jul 20, 2015, at 10:30 AM, Jeroen Massar <jeroen at massar.ch> wrote:
> 
>> On 2015-07-20 15:59, phil wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>> 
>> can you be a bit more specify on how hot too hot is?
>> How hot is a normal working one supposed to get after running cat /dev/random > /dev/null for some time?
> 
> Mine are "too hot to touch to get out of the usb slot" only a few
> moments after plugging in and rngd starting to do it's thing.
> The PCB itself gets hot btw, not just the metal shielding.
> 
> They cool down amazingly well when taken out of the port.
> 
> They do produce 2400+ of entropy even after whitewashing (the openssl
> trick the package does).
> 
> I'll wait for the second call as mentioned at:
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moonbaseotago/onerng-an-open-source-entropy-generator/posts/1299117
> likely there will be more details then and maybe a "if you do this
> they'll stay cool" thingy.
> 
> 
> Btw, is there a git repo somewhere for the Debian package & software,
> there are quite a few improvements to be made (not depending on 'at' for
> instance, and not mailing the output of that whenever it gets plugged in...)
> 
> Greets,
> Jeroen
> 
> 
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