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15 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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23 <div class="title">Unlimited randomness with the ChaosKey?</div>
24 <div class="date"> 1st March 2017</div>
25 <div class="body"><p>A few days ago I ordered a small batch of
26 <a href="http://altusmetrum.org/ChaosKey/">the ChaosKey</a>, a small
27 USB dongle for generating entropy created by Bdale Garbee and Keith
28 Packard. Yesterday it arrived, and I am very happy to report that it
29 work great! According to its designers, to get it to work out of the
30 box, you need the Linux kernel version 4.1 or later. I tested on a
31 Debian Stretch machine (kernel version 4.9), and there it worked just
32 fine, increasing the available entropy very quickly. I wrote a small
33 test oneliner to test. It first print the current entropy level,
34 drain /dev/random, and then print the entropy level for five seconds.
35 Here is the situation without the ChaosKey inserted:</p>
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37 <blockquote><pre>
38 % cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail; \
39 dd bs=1M if=/dev/random of=/dev/null count=1; \
40 for n in $(seq 1 5); do \
41 cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail; \
42 sleep 1; \
43 done
44 300
45 0+1 oppføringer inn
46 0+1 oppføringer ut
47 28 byte kopiert, 0,000264565 s, 106 kB/s
48 4
49 8
50 12
51 17
52 21
53 %
54 </pre></blockquote>
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56 <p>The entropy level increases by 3-4 every second. In such case any
57 application requiring random bits (like a HTTPS enabled web server)
58 will halt and wait for more entrpy. And here is the situation with
59 the ChaosKey inserted:</p>
60
61 <blockquote><pre>
62 % cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail; \
63 dd bs=1M if=/dev/random of=/dev/null count=1; \
64 for n in $(seq 1 5); do \
65 cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail; \
66 sleep 1; \
67 done
68 1079
69 0+1 oppføringer inn
70 0+1 oppføringer ut
71 104 byte kopiert, 0,000487647 s, 213 kB/s
72 433
73 1028
74 1031
75 1035
76 1038
77 %
78 </pre></blockquote>
79
80 <p>Quite the difference. :) I bought a few more than I need, in case
81 someone want to buy one here in Norway. :)</p>
82
83 <p>Update: The dongle was presented at Debconf last year. You might
84 find <a href="https://debconf16.debconf.org/talks/94/">the talk
85 recording illuminating</a>. It explains exactly what the source of
86 randomness is, if you are unable to spot it from the schema drawing
87 available from the ChaosKey web site linked at the start of this blog
88 post.</p>
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