Timings for random

[Mark Atwood]

I wonder if we should just start recommending that people plug one of Keith
Packard's ChaosKey's into a USB port on their NTP boxes.

https://keithp.com/blogs/chaoskey/

I just leave one plugged into my main working NUC all the time.

..m

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 5:15 PM Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

>
> gem at rellim.com said:
> > You can't run out of randomness with RAND_bytes().
>
> Would you please say more.  The man page says:
>
>        RAND_bytes() puts num cryptographically strong pseudo-random bytes
> into
>        buf. An error occurs if the PRNG has not been seeded with enough
>        randomness to ensure an unpredictable byte sequence.
>
> How can I be sure that it has "been seeded with enough"?
>
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