Araneus Alea I
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.

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December 1st, 2006 at 2:11 pm
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