Entropy Key for FreeBSD?

Maxim Khitrov mkhitrov at gmail.com
Sun Dec 11 15:51:51 UTC 2011


On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Per olof Ljungmark <peo at intersonic.se> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Did anyone in the community try to adopt the Entropy Key
> http://www.entropykey.com/
> for use with FreeBSD?
>
> As a non-programmer I would not even try but perhaps someone with better
> skills already did?
>
> FWIW MirBSD seems to have a port of the keyd.
>
> Thanks!

I'm curious if you or anyone else pursued this topic? Does anyone know
what would be required to get this particular USB RNG to work with
FreeBSD 9.0 and whether it's worth the money in situations where a
good source of entropy is required?

- Max


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