<div dir="ltr">Sounds like you're getting on well, albeit a little slowly.<div><br></div><div>OneRNG presents itself as a serial device, as you've found; on Linux /dev/ttyACM0 is often what the OS chooses to call it.</div><div><br></div><div>By default, there's no connection between this serial device and the Linux OS's internal random number generators (/dev/random, /dev/urandom). That's what the software package for OneRNG tries to provide - but there have been a bunch of changes in recent distributions that stop it from working properly (python has been upgraded, systemd has taken control of more things, the entire internals of /dev/random have been re-written). We have a new version of the helper software in development according to Paul, it'll come when he's ready :-)</div><div><br></div><div>So with a current Linux and the current state of the software, just plugging it in is unlikely to do much. However, you can still talk directly to the device over the serial interface and collect data for use directly with your own software. The "Generic" instructions provided from the Moonbase Otago site <a href="http://www.moonbaseotago.com/onerng/#Generic">http://www.moonbaseotago.com/onerng/#Generic</a> are still accurate, and will lead you to connect to the device and issue instructions, and eventually run 'rngd' manually to link up our device with /dev/random.</div><div><br></div><div>Some of the comments about extended demand from /dev/random causing the OneRNG LEDs to light are probably inaccurate now, as I don't think /dev/random re-seeds itself following usage in the same way that it used to. Instead I suspect the better approach is to just cram data down the pipeline periodically regardless of usage - but again I defer to Paul. I'm guessing some documentation rewriting will be needed.</div><div><br></div><div>As for Windows itself, we're still not clear on how the OS might accept external entropy - it's likely that only hardware services Microsoft want to support (e.g. TPM devices and CPU services) will ever have a way in. However, if you have a specialist use for entropy you can talk directly to the OneRNG over the serial interface and process its data with your own software.</div><div><br></div><div>-jim</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 9:02 AM onerng <<a href="mailto:onerng@mcgugan.uk">onerng@mcgugan.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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