gofortuna

README

fortuna: an improved PRNG

This is a Go implementation of the Fortuna PRNG[1]. It can be used
by applications which do not trust the operating system's RNG
facilities or in cases where acquiring random data via the operating
system's facilities may not be an option, or where the operating
system relies on a hardware RNG or other single point of
compromise/failure.

The PRNG works by sending random events to the PRNG, such as random
network traffic, key presses, etc. This is accomplished via sources;
two sources are provided -- one provides a channel which receives
byte slices, the other providing a standard io.Writer interface.

This source code may be fetched from the primary repository[2] at
via Mercurial. There are backups on Github[3] and Bitbucket[4] (via Mercurial).

Currently in progress is an example daemon providing a PRNG over TCP/IP.

For usage instructions on the `fortuna` package, please see the
README in the package's directory. An implementation that uses
256-bit Twofish and Keccak-256 is provided in the `tunafish` package.


[1] N. Ferguson, B. Schneier, T. Kohno. Cryptography Engineering.
    Wiley, March 2010. pp142-160.
[2] http://hg.tyrfingr.is/kyle/gofortuna 
[3] https://github.com/gokyle/gofortuna
[4] https://bitbucket.org/kisom/gofortuna


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Copyright (c) 2013 Kyle Isom <kyle@tyrfingr.is>

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