using alternate sources of entropy

[Ben Kibbey]

On Tue, 07 May 2013 16:19:02 +0000, Abel Luck writes:
> Hi,
>
> For various reasons we're exploring alternatives to /dev/random on
> Android. Primarily because it doesn't fill fast enough, and we do not
> have root access so we cannot write to it.
>
> We've one good source of entropy, the accelerometer, that we would like
> gpg-agent to use. Looking through the docs it appears gnupg supports EGD.
>
> EGD would work well, but it is written in perl, which would be a royal
> PITA to get working on Android.
>
> The options I've come up with are:
>
> 1) Write an EGD in C or Java
> 2) Hack gnupg source and add our own thing

I have done key generation on Android and
http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/ seems to work well. Running 'ent' from
http://www.fourmilab.ch/random/ gives good results, too.

-- 
Ben Kibbey