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dizzykey edited this page Mar 17, 2014 · 3 revisions

Hardware that has accessible h/w rng

Alix 2d3 :

and indeed any of the Alix Geode boards. Confirmed running obsd 5.[23]

dd if=/dev/random of=/tmp/randombits bs=1M count=100
104857600 bytes transferred in 6.999 secs (14981125 bytes/sec)

~15MB/s !

this entropy shows itself to pass dieharder and rng-tests very well

Alix is an enterprise grade board and processor from PCEngines. It is very stable and highly suitable for production installations often used as a gateway router, wifi AP or vpn endpoint

cost approx £50 second hand else about £130 brand new including board, case, cf card and psu

wattage less than 5W

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EdgeRouter LITE :

to be tested but reports are that the SoC contains a h/w rng and edgeos uses rngd to feed /dev/random sound promising

cost approx £100 depending on supplier

wattage less than 5W

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Raspberry Pi :

apparently it does have a h/w rng and it might be considered for home installtions

cost approx £80-100 including all psu, cables, sd cards etc

wattage approx 5W

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