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by malandrew 4731 days ago
How do those Entropy Keys work? What sort of environmental random data does it rely on for creating random bits?
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Thermal noise of various kinds, usually.

(Edit: that is, the noise introduced in a circuit by the fact that it's not at absolute zero, e.g. Johnson noise. Not just gathering entropy from a temperature sensor reading or something like that.)