From 1aacd0adb15254f01a212d06eff74ef1188d990f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ulif <uli@gnufix.de> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:09:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update docs: tell about RaspPi hardware RNG. --- docs/randomsources.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/randomsources.rst b/docs/randomsources.rst index c38b9f1..6845f1e 100644 --- a/docs/randomsources.rst +++ b/docs/randomsources.rst @@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ therefore depends on the quality of your OS implementation. As a user you can enforce the use of this source of randomness with the ``-r system`` option. +Please note that the Raspberry Pi is said to provide a hardware random +number generator that delivers "real randomness". One has to enable it +system-wide to make it the active source of randomness on a Raspberry +Pi. If done properly, also :class:`randomSystemRandom` (and hence +`diceware`) should use good quality random numbers. + Real Dice --------- -- GitLab