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Comment by ostensible

This being raspberry pi absolves you from needing to buy a separate hardware noise generator: it has plenty of GPIO. For example, one can obtain entropy by sampling random noise generated by reverse-biasing a junction in a cheap pn transistor. Here is an example: http://holdenc.altervista.org/avalanche/. Bonus — maybe it will get you hooked on electrical engineering!

Btw, some versions of raspberry pi already have hardware random number number generator accessible at /dev/hwrng.

parent ostensible 1 year ago

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