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24 July 2008 10:30

Way of the exploding head ยป Whirlygig RNG

Whirlygig is a USB 1.1 device that contains a fast, high quality hardware random number generator. Via a Linux driver, each whirlygig you connect makes available an additional 7Mbits of high quality randomness a second, or 750-850KBytes/sec sustained using the standard /dev/hw_random API.