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The OneRNG is an Open Hardware, Open Source, simple and verifiable USB-connected source of entropy; we do not ask you to "trust" us, we give you the ability to verify for yourself that the OneRNG does what we claim, and that it does nothing else.
OneRNG collects entropy from an avalanche diode circuit, and from a channel-hopping RF receiver. It even has a “tinfoil hat” to prevent RF interference — you can remove the hat in order to visually verify the components being used.
You rely on a high-quality source of random numbers to maintain your privacy and security in computer communication; but computers have too few sources of truly random data for the demands we place upon them. Increasingly we have been distrusting the solutions given to us by others, as they are shown to be weak in so many ways - because of faults in implementation, in design, or due to subversion by attackers who simply do not care about the consequences of their actions (I'm looking at you, NSA).
In general usage, we recommend that you use the OneRNG as an entropy source for your operating system's own RNG software; this allows you to consume extremely large quantities of random data without either blocking or reducing the quality of the data.
http://onerng.info
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http://moonbaseotago.com/onerng/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/17/meet_onerng_a_fullyopen_entropy_generator_for_a_paranoid_age/
(Score: 1) by tftp on Tuesday November 18 2014, @06:09AM
I would buy - or make - one, not because I'm concerned, but just as a toy. In a practical sense you are absolutely correct, many OSes are a sieve of vulnerabilities, even if we only judge by published exploits. How many are not published? TLAs have access to Windows (and probably OS/X) sources and may see exploits that are not detectable by mere experiments. Especially if they paid for those to be coded in the first place... A typical Windows box opens connections to many servers all the time, and the only way to be really sure is to disconnect it from the Internet. (Don't forget the WiFi card.)
The vast majority of people are safe and secure in the cyberspace simply because their communications are of no value to anyone except the lowest of lowly thieves. And those can't break SSL. If a TLA wants your data, there is an xkcd just about that. Nobody is going to bother with decryption if the agency can send people into the apartment and capture the whole HDD.
(Score: 2) by novak on Tuesday November 18 2014, @06:54AM
their communications are of no value to anyone except the lowest of lowly thieves
their communications are of no value to anyone except their own government
Not everyone would immediately realize that the government is the lowest of lowly thieves, but they should (At least, if you live in one of the five eyes countries).
Most users have no reason to be worried about hackers, as you said they have nothing worth wasting their time on. Viruses are usually easy to steer around, either the vulnerabilities they exploit are soon patched, or they are dependent on ignorant users to spread. I'm worried about people who really do have the means and the reason to try to break encryption across the entire internet.
novak
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 18 2014, @03:32PM
Yeah, it sucks to be in a five eyes country. Too bad we can't all be in some place like China or Russia. I'm sure in those places you are FAR less likely to be spied upon by the government, right?
I find it remarkable how so many people around here whine and shit all over Western countries being essentially the equivalent of 1960's Soviet Bloc countries, when over 3/4th of the world is much worse from a human rights standpoint on all accounts. But they all somehow get a free pass because "OMG! Teh NSA!!!!!" What's a few thousand people rounded up and murdered here and there. That's nothing. They're lucky they don't have to take their shoes off at the airport! They have no idea what a pain in the ass that is and how lucky they are.