EntropyKey - miniature Windows driver...?

Nick Pelling nickpelling at nanodome.com
Mon Jul 12 12:29:45 BST 2010


Hi everyone,

Are there any plans for a Windows driver for the EntropyKey?

Perhaps you remember the 2007 news story about CryptGenRandom in Windows 2000?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/13/windows_random_number_gen_flawed/

I'd have thought that anyone relying on randomness for security would 
prefer to have something like an EntropyKey hardware dongle driving the 
random stream than Microsoft's version.

Even without going to the trouble of replacing RtlGenRandom / 
CryptGenRandom, a replacement rand() library call that grabs EntropyKey 
bits would be a big win for a lot of programmes. :-)

Cheers, ....Nick Pelling.... // Nanodome Ltd




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