Le 17/05/2014 18:38, Jan Moskyto Matejka a écrit : >> I might be misinterpreting your definition of "meaningful", but I >> have been looking for a public entropy source for my Debian system >> for quite a while. If you can point me to the Debian equivalent of >> pollinate and https://entropy.ubuntu.com/ that would be highly >> appreciated. > To transport the entropy securely, you need cryptography, which is > preciously the thing you need entropy to. Public entropy source is > an insecure crap with no security profit at all. More that than, it > makes admins think their system is better secured. It isn't. more than that : it is an excellent attack vector, since some cryptographic operation become weak when the attacker knows a bias of the generation of secrets.
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