[Gllug] entropykey: why did nobody ever mention this thing before?

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Mon Aug 2 20:08:38 UTC 2010


On 2 Aug 2010, JLMS told this:

> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:
>> [not quite OT: the makers of this thing are very Linux-friendly,
>>  more specifically Debian-friendly ;) and it seems like the sort
>>  of thing Linux people might well need; also it's so nifty I have
>>  to rave about it]
>>
>> I just bought an Entropy Key (from <http://www.entropykey.co.uk/>. Why
>> did nobody mention the existence of this thing before? Why is nobody
>> shouting about it from the rooftops?
>
> Because it is an ultra niche product, problem and need?

Needing random numbers for SSL, key generation, TCP sequence number
generation, or address space randomization is ultra niche? (What *is*
true is that attacks on systems through the quality of their entropy
pools are rare indeed -- so far.)
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