[onerng talk] review of RNGs

[Bill Cox]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 4:44 AM, Jim Cheetham <jim at gonzul.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Philipp Gühring <pg at futureware.at>
> wrote:
>
> > > >> The price and speed are nice to know, but what I really want to know
> > > about
> > > >> a TRNG is whether it has open-source software, and whether it has
> > > >> open-source hardware.  Could these columns be added?
> >
> > So how should we design those fields exactly?
> > OpenSource driver: Yes/No
> > OpenHardware design: Yes/No
> > Any other ideas while we are at changing the columns?
> >
>
> Yes, oddly enough things I think OneRNG is good at:
> * Entropy Sources (e.g. Avalanche/RF)
> ** Configurable by user (i.e. choose which sources to use)
> * Raw output available (i.e. mode with no whitening)
> ** Whitening method (e.g. CRC16, AES)
> * Firmware updateable?
> ** Updatable over USB?
> * Firmware signature able to be verified by user?
>

I really like these in addition to open-source hardware/software.  I might
add "health monitor".


> Collect the official website & contact details, and when you add more
> columns you'll be able to let manufacturers know.
>
> Possibly also keep the raw data files publicaly available on something like
> Amazon S3, so others can analyse them with new tools.
>

Making it a wiki might not be a bad idea, if we don't think it would be
vandalized.  That would let manufacturers update their entries.

There is an error in my Infinite Noise TRNG entry.  The initial price was
indeed $15, but right now I only sell the ones I make by hand, and I
currently charge $35 for them.  If anything, I'm more likely to increase
the hand-built price going forward.

Bill
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