> > [snip] > >>Does anyone know if there is a hardware RNG in my Athlons? XP-2800 > >>here, XP-1400 in the shop box, & a K6-III in the firewall. > > It's a mainboard feature, not a CPU feature. > And is there a docmentation on how to find which RNG device you have? > Or is there lsrng (like lspci) :-) > Most of the device names I have never heard of, but working with 5+ MB vendors and all the different > models of MB I really have no idea where do I have this and that... > So, any method of autodetecting a RNG device? > And a question, I always wanted to ask: is there a cheap hardware random device usable in linux that > is PCI/USB/serial whatever pluggable? For MBs without RNG in the chipset. Consider: audio-entropyd: use a cheap soundcard for generating entropy (http://www.vanheusden.com/aed/) video-entropyd: use that obsolete webcam for same thing (http://www.vanheusden.com/ved/) Folkert van Heusden -- Try MultiTail! Multiple windows with logfiles, filtered with regular expressions, colored output, etc. etc. www.vanheusden.com/multitail/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get your PGP/GPG key signed at www.biglumber.com! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: +31-6-41278122, PGP-key: 1F28D8AE, www.vanheusden.com
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