Raspberry PI's hardware random number generator for /dev/random
I've stumble upon that Raspberry PI has a built in hardware random number generator. http://scruss.com/blog/2013/06/07/well-that-was-unexpected-the-raspberry-pis-hardware-random-number-generator/ The BCM2835 datasheet also does not provide any info about the RNG. I also found out that the kernel module is also loaded: pi@raspberrypi ~ $ lsmod | grep bcm snd_bcm2835 22317 0 snd_pcm 92397 1 snd_bcm2835 snd 66972 5 snd_bcm2835,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_seq_device bcm2835_rng 2215 0 bcm2835_gpiomem 3703 0 However, it is currently not fed to /dev/random Also, occasionally, I realize there is a long pause when trying to log in to SSH when the random entropy pool runs out because I'm using it mos...