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Araneus Alea I

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Posted by jad on Nov 27th, 2006

I just got a Areneus Alea I true random number generator going with OS X. The device will work with any Unix like OS that support libusb.
First get libusb from http://libusb.sourceforge.net/ and install it like this

./configure --prefix=/opt/libusb
make
make install

Then copy the contents of the driver CD that came with the Alea I somewhere you can write to.

cd linux
#edit the Makefile and make it look like this
randomfile: randomfile.c
cc randomfile.c -L/opt/libusb/lib -lusb -Wl,-framework
-Wl,IOKit -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreFoundation -Wl,-prebind
-I/opt/libusb/include  -o randomfile
make

Then run the resulting randomfile program to see it work. Tests with this device will follow.

One Response

  1. techblog » Blog Archive » Testing randomness Says:

    […] I wrote about installing a Araneus Alea I the other day. Since then I have been reading about how you test random number generators. […]

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