Infinite Noise TRNG: Open hardware USB true random number generator
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The Infinite Noise TRNG is an affordable and secure true random number generator (TRNG). It’s based on a modular entropy multiplier technique that continuously loops over previous random output, gathering randomness from the noise of the hardware components along the way, to generate the next random output. This way it produces a constant, measurable level of entropy which is then whitened to produce true random numbers. The openness of the implementation makes it easy to inspect and verify, as all security hardware should be!
Who Needs It and Why?Almost any cryptographic operation relies on random numbers - and there are many different approaches to collect this entropy. For Linux systems, this is mostly done with user input and other hardware timing’s "randomness". This approach is very slow and its performance mainly depends on the computer’s activity.
For situations where the Linux Random Pool /dev/random depletes and finally blocks, hardware random number generators like the Infinite Noise TRNG provide a secure, high performance way to feed entropy into your computer.
When you operate many virtual machines, lack of entropy can be a serious problem as all VMs share the host's entropy source. The Infinite Noise will provide lots of random numbers to the host system.
Large web-servers doing SSL encryption can be sped up by using hardware random number generators, while making communications more secure.
If you operate Linux-based WiFi access points (whether using a PC, laptop, or custom hardware), they can
benefit from plentiful available entropy, as WPA2 authentication relies on it.
The next big thing about random number generators is security. When you take a close look at the last 20 years of information technology, there have been dozens of security incidents with flaws in random number generators.
1994: First Netscape SSL implementations using a predictable seed.
2007: Reverse engineering showed that the Windows 2000/XP random number generator had a bug that makes it vulnerable. It's been there for years.
2008: Members of the CCC developed an attack overcoming a poor RNG used in MIFARE Crypto-1, which is still used in some RFID tags.
2008: The random number generator used in OpenSSL had a critical bug - possibly affecting the security of all keys generated before 2008.
2013: Snowden documents unveiled that the Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm has been backdoored by the NSA as part of the Bullrun project. Even worse - it has been recommended by the NIST and actually adopted by manufacturers. At the same time discussions concerning the use of Intel's RdRand (previously named: Bull Mountain [1]) in the Linux kernel came up. Doesn't that name sound alarming enough? But even worse - there seem to be ways to let it produce not-so-random numbers. [2]
2016: The Linux driver for a very common wireless card (ath9k) appears to have a HWR #kickstarter #kickbooster #indiegogo #newinventions #gadgets newinventions2021technology #campaign #advertisement #kickstarterproducts #kickstarter2021 #kickstarterprojects
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