Subject: Re: The use of yarrow to generate LARGE amounts of random data
From: Alwyn Allan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:53:51 -0400
Newsgroups: sci.crypt

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Linux /dev/random does about the same. I don't know about other unix
variants.

If you believe Intel's claims, their PIII/810 generator puts out about 70
Kbps of entropy. I don't know if software to read it is freely available
yet. That would give you 500 MB in about 17 hours.

Rainbow makes a crypto processor (FastMAP) that includes a RNG. If you
believe their claims, it generates about 1 Mbps, so you could generate 500
MB in 1.1 hours. This device is used in fast SSL server hardware (IPIVOT).

My ORB device generates about 500 bps of real entropy, securely wrapped in
1100 bps of data. Eight of them would generate your 500 MB in less than two
weeks.

Other commercial devices (Protego, Tundra, ComScire, Orion) have various
bitrates.

A. Peter Allan
http://www.delanet.com/~apa/orb/