<div dir="ltr">Kudos to the ChaosKey creator for making the design open source, including the board layout and firmware. Indeed, we need more such offerings.<div><br></div><div>That said, a single Vbe breakdown avalanche noise generator without any shielding or protections against PWNed firmware is not the best choice, IMO, for crypto. Still, I'd take an open-source TRNG with limitations I can see and understand any day over a "high quality" closed-source TRNG.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Jim Cheetham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@gonzul.net" target="_blank">jim@gonzul.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<span style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:100%" width="100%">Our friends over at Altus Metrum (Keith and Bdale) have released their</span><br><span style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:100%" width="100%">take on the hardware RNG, chaoskey.</span><br>
<br><span style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:100%" width="100%"><a href="http://keithp.com/blogs/chaoskey/" style="color:#567;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://<b>keithp.com</b>/blogs/<wbr>chaoskey/</a></span><br>
<br><span style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:100%" width="100%"><a href="https://debconf16.debconf.org/talks/94/" style="color:#567;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://<b>debconf16.debconf.org</b><wbr>/talks/94/</a></span><br>
<br><span style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:100%" width="100%">The more the merrier! Remember that mixing multiple sources together</span><br><span style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:100%" width="100%">is a great way to protect against a potentially hostile source (well,</span><br><span style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:100%" width="100%">depending on your paranoia levels I guess) ...</span><br>
<br><span style="display:inline-block;max-width:580px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:pre-wrap;width:100%" width="100%">-jim</span><br>
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