infincia/cardrand

This is a simple demonstration of two things, pulling random entropy out of a hardware smart card, and feeding that data into the Linux kernel pool using an ioctl call. Makes it possible for any Linux system to have a real hardware random number generator

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• Show HN: Feeding the linux /dev/random pool using a smart card RNG (3 points, 0 comments, by infincia, 2012-02-12)